...described by one who will be admitted to have made good his title to an opinion on the subject : — " How then stands the case ? We have to educate a people...who cannot at present be educated by means of their mother tongue ; we must teach them some foreign language. The claims of our own language it is hardly...

...is to the following purport — or so much of it, at least, as we are concerned with : — " ' How stands the case ? We have to educate a people who cannot at present be educated by means of their mother tongue. We must teach them some foreign language. The claims of our own language it is hardly...

...love it by making him feel how insupportable was a life of idleness- — ANON. EDUCATION IN INDIA. We have to educate a people who cannot at present be educated by the means of their mother-tongue. We must teach them some foreign language ; the claims of our own...

...minute is to the following purport — or so much of it, at least, as we are concerned with : — " How stands the case ? We have to educate a people who cannot at present be educated by means of their mother tongue. We must teach them some foreign language. The claims of our own language it is hardly...

...less valuable than what may be found in the most paltry abridgments used at preparatory schools in England. In every branch of physical or moral philosophy...who cannot at present be educated by means of their mother tongue. We must teach them some foreign language. The claims of our own language it is hardly...

...less valuable than what may be found in the most paltry abridgments used at preparatory schools in England. In every branch of physical or moral philosophy...nations is nearly the same. ' How then stands the case 1 We have to educate a people who cannot at present be educated by means of their mother tongue. We...

...Minute deserves to be written in letters of gold. We can give but a brief extract from it here : — " We have to educate a people who cannot at present be educated by means of their mother tongue. We must teach them some foreign language. The claims of our own language it is hardly...

...less valuable that what may be found in the most paltry abridgments used at preparatory schools in England. In every branch of physical or moral philosophy,...nations is nearly the same. " How, then, stands the case P We have to educate a people who cannot at present be educated by means of their mother-tongue. We...

...is less valuable than what may be found in the most paltry abridgment used at preparatory schools in England. In every branch of physical or moral philosophy...relative position of the two nations is nearly the same." By the Resolution of 1835 it was decided that the official language of India should be English and...

...traversed the major premiss on which Macaulay's whole argument rested.1 Macaulay started by assuming that "we have to educate a people who cannot at present be educated by means of their mother-tongue," and he presupposed the impossibility of giving sound instruction in the classical languages of India....