ABSTRACT
The teachers now employed in the primary schools are almost all Brahmins; a few of them are from the normal training college, the rest being all untrained men. About 25 years ago, the missionaries had established a female school in Poona, but no indigenous schools for girls existed at the time. Whatever may have been their motives in providing ampler funds, and greater facilities for higher education and neglecting that of the masses, it will be acknowledged by all that in justice to the latter this is not as it should be. From the latest reports of Public Instruction in this Presidency, it is found that there are 1,049 indigenous schools with about 27,694 pupils in them. The system of Government scholarships at present followed in Government schools is also defective, inasmuch as it gives undue encouragement to those classes only who have already acquired a taste for education to the detriment of the other classes.
