Progress of Education in India 1907-1912

The Government of India while bound to maintain a position of complete neutrality in matters of religion observe that the most thoughtful minds in India lament the tendency of existing systems of education to develop the intellectual at the expense of the moral and religious faculties. [...] In 1904 the Goverment of India remarked that peculiar difficulties were encountered in this branch of education owing to the social customs of the people but that as a far greater proportional impulse is imparted to the educational and moral tone of the people by the education of women than by the education of men liberal treatment had been accorded for girls in respect of scholarships and fee [...] The iprovement of secondary English education has for some time occupied the attention of the Government of India and the Local Governments and it is hoped in the near future to remedy many defects of the present system. [...] They suggest for the consideration of Local Governments and Adminitrations further developments of the system in regard to the character of the tests by which certificates are granted at the end of the school course. [...] Other matters which are likely to come to the front at no distant date are the improvement of the Medical College at Lahore and its separation from the school the improvement of the Dacca Medical School and the provision of facilities for medical training in the Central Provinces.