ABSTRACT
The critics of State education in India are never weary of pointing out that its fatal defect is the absence of any moral and religious basis. The primary object of the foundation of the Hindu College was no doubt to impart knowledge, the new knowledge of the West, which gave to Western nations their extraordinary superiority in the practical concerns of life. The preamble to the Act constituting the universities in January, 1857, says nothing of moral education. The model of the Universities of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay was the London University, their declared aim was the test of proficiency in study and the affiliated colleges were non-residential. The Education Commission of 1882 devoted separate sections to moral and religious training. A depraved and perverted nature may use the powers that education gives to evil purpose. The higher the education is the greater the incompatibility of its influences with cruelty, treachery, physical violence and secret murder.
