The Journal [afterw.] The Madras journal of literature and science, ed. by J.C. Morris, Volume 16 |
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Page 430 - Wayfaring Sketches among the Greeks and TURKS, AND ON THE SHORES OF THE DANUBE. By a Seven Years
Page 397 - Collector of this district, submits, that although none of the institutions for education at present existing in it derive support from the state, " there is no doubt that in former times, especially under the Hindoo governments, very large grants, both in money and in land, were issued for the support of learning...
Page 396 - we shall be able to form a more correct opinion, when we see what the reports contain. It was proper to caution the Collectors against exciting any fears in the people that their freedom of choice in matters of education would be interfered with. But it would be equally wrong to do any thing to fortify them in the absurd opinion, that their own rude institutions of education are so perfect as not to admit of improvement.
Page 430 - A TOUR OF DUTY IN CALIFORNIA. Including a description of the gold region: and an account of the voyage around Cape Horn; with notices of Lower California, the Gulf and Pacific coasts, and the principal events attending the conquest of the Californias.
Page 395 - Rajbundah and some other tribes of Hindoos, who seem to have no prejudice of this kind, they are generally taught. The prohibition against women learning to read is probably, from various causes, much less attended to in some districts than in others; and as it is possible that in every district a few females may be found in the reading schools, a column has been entered for them in the form proposed to be sent to the Collector.
Page 401 - ... the practice of boys being taught at home by their relations or private teachers is not unfrequent in any part of the country. The proportion educated is very different in different classes ; in some it is nearly the whole ; in others it is hardly one-tenth.
Page 402 - Government may incur in the education of the people, will be amply repaid by the improvement of the country, for the general diffusion of knowledge is inseparably followed by more orderly habits, by increasing industry by a taste for the comforts of life, by exertion to acquire them, and by the growing prosperity of the people.
Page 426 - I am directed by the Right Honorable the Governor in Council to...
Page 402 - The minute of Sir Thomas Munro concludes by recommending the appointment of a Committee of Public Instruction, and by an expression of the most entire confidence in the final success of the measure, although he concurs in the opinion that that success must be progressive and will be slow. " With a very slight modification, the Council have concurred in their President's suggestions, which are accordingly recommended for adoption by the Court of Directors, and the following gentlemen have been appointed...
Page 402 - Munro, in words used many years since, that any expense which may be incurred for this object, 'will be amply repaid by the improvement of the country ; for the general diffusion of knowledge is inseparably followed by more orderly habits, by increasing industry, by a taste for the comforts of life, by exertion to acquire them, and by the growing prosperity of the people.