ABSTRACT
IN all civilised countries, next to religion educational questions provoke the greatest differences of opinion and even engender heat. The second proof of the alleged rottenness of the present educational system is the heavy “massacre” of B.A. candidates,—sometimes amounting to 80 p.c., as in Madras and Allahabad in recent years. The experience of other countries may help us to understand the situation in India better. In the Middle Ages education in England was imparted through the medium of a foreign tongue, viz., Latin, and students had to answer questions in the same language. The evil had attracted the attention of many Indian educationists and well-wishers of our boys very early. As far back as 1897 or so, at the instance of Sir Gurudas Banerji and Babu Hirendra Nath Dutt, the Bengali Sahitya Parishad consulted more than a hundred experienced teachers and public leaders and published their views on the subject in one volume.
