"National education cannot be defined briefly in one or two sentences, but we may describe it tentatively as the educa…"

"The living spirit of the demand for national education no more requires a return to the astronomy and mathematics of …"

"[Is the system in England different from that introduced in India?] Yes, [in India] they want only clerks and the edu…"

"As Gandhiji pointed out, in a country where the Ramayana is recited by the low-lowliest, in the remotest corners, the…"

"There is a strange idea prevalent that by merely teaching the dogmas of religion children can be made pious and moral…"

"The economy with which children are taught to write in the native schools, and the system by which the more advanced …"

"there are multitudes who cannot even avail themselves of the advantages ... I am sorry to state, that this is ascriba…"

"It cannot have escaped the government that of nearly a million of souls in this District, not 7,000 are now at school…"

"Such is the state in this District of the various schools in which reading, writing and arithmetic are taught in the …"

"Hindu sciences have retired far away from those parts of the country conquered by us, and have fled to places which o…"