Books w'i"TEN. 29 their early training and their imperfect knowledge of the East, naturally consider those methods and systems equally efficacious here, and seck to enforce them accordingly. The diversity of the creeds, moreover, which our students profess, rentlers religious education in public schools and colleges extremely difficult. Owing to these and other peculiarities, much remains to be said about Indian Education notwithstanding the existence of many excellent works on Education generally. I have had some opportunities of observing the opcration of our system of education, first as a student, and then as a lecturer on Mathematic's in the Calcutta Presidency College and afterwards as a Lecturer on Mathematics and on law in the Berhanpur College, and latterly as a Fellow of the Calcutta niversity, and for some years as a member of its syndicate. I have found similar opportunities also in supervising the teaching of those whom nature has committed to my 'are, and in giving occasional instruction on Sundays to the students of the Entrance Class of a High School in my neighbourhood. It was when thus employed, that various suggestions for improving or system of Edu'ation occurred to me, from time to time and these have been embodied in the following pages. Most of them are trite and are generally accepted in theory as torrect and they have been deemed fit for formal statement and inclusion in this book, only by reason of their being persistently disregarded in practice. Thore are some few again which afford room for doubt and discussion; and they are submitted for the considera
