ABSTRACT
If, sir, you can persuade the Government to double or quadruple the funds appropriated to education, then I am content to see the present system in the English department" go hand in hand" with such a system in the vernacular department as you have sketched. But if you cannot so persuade the Government, then, sir, it behoves you to consider whether the existing inevitable as total sacrifice of the latter to the former, be defensible; for the two are demonstrably incompatible, without a vast addition to the funds now assigned to the promotion of education by the State. I, sir, expect no such addition; and as I know that under the existing constitution of native society men of rank and wealth will never send their children to our schools but abide by domestic education, whilst I feel convinced that in regard to the only sort of children frequenting our schools, so costly, difficult, and peculiar an education as that now in vogue, can neither yield its appropriate fruits in ripe maturity, nor yet find any adequate market for those fruits eyen if matured,* I would grant no such an education at the Imblic cost to the promiscuous herd of comers, but only to such persons as would consent to thorough training and to the dedication of their rare attainments to the permanent service of the public as normal teachers and translators. Such, sir, is my proposition, and such the grounds of it.
