Educational Papers - A Supplement to the South India Missionary Conference Report #255878

Presidency of Madras offers a fair field for the adoption of our scheme of education in its integrity, by founding Government anglo-vernacular Institutions only where no such places of instruction at present exist, which might, by grants-in-aid and other assistance, adequately supply the educational wants of the people. With the Despatch before them the readers of the Papers which follow will be able to judge whether the Memorialists have not made out their conten tion that the tendency Of the Madras Educational administration in recent years has been in the opposite direction to that prescribed by the Des patch and whether they are not right in claiming that if the policy of the Despatch is to be reversed, it be done openly, deliberately and by the high authority that imposed it. On these questions we now wait the decision of the Secretary of State for India.