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our power, the discouragement which struck us so much when
considering the subject cf education, arising from the fact that
no proficiency in study led to worldly advancement.
' To make the institution subservient to all the objects con-
templated, it must go somewhat beyond Captain Sutherland's
proposal, and must teach not only all that is necessary to make
the pupils good surveyors, but all that can enlarge their minds
and Ax their principles, provided that it does not render them
so different from the other natives as to be odious to their
countrymen. On the other hand, there are some studies ad-
verted to by Captain Sutherland which might be more con-
veniently left to future observation—I mean the knowledge of
soil and all circumstances that affect its productive powers.
The theory might be taught to a certain extent, but it is to
practice that we must trust for the advancement of the most
useful part of this branch of knowledge.
' The establishment ought further to embrace some pro-
vision for the education of judicial servants, a point on the
extreme necessity of which we have been so often urged by the
Sudder Adawlut.
' Should the whole of these views be approved, they might
lead to the formation of an establishment sufficiently extensive,
combined with the Hindoo College and the institution for the
higher branches of science recommended under the seventh head
of my minute of December 13, 1823, to admit of the appoint-
ment of a European superintendent, without which it could
scarcely be expected that so great an undertaking would pros-
per. But as we cannot venture on a measure of this nature
without the previous sanction of the Court of Directors, I will
not at present enter into any of the details of the plan, but
content myself with proposing that it should be recommended
to the Court.
' It may seem an objection that it resembles the plan for a
native college at the Presidency which was submitted by us
in 1820, and which did not meet with the approbation of the
Honourable Court; but the failure of that measure may be
ascribed to its connection with the college for civil servants,
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our power, the discouragement which struck us so much when
considering the subject cf education, arising from the fact that
no proficiency in study led to worldly advancement.
' To make the institution subservient to all the objects con-
templated, it must go somewhat beyond Captain Sutherland's
proposal, and must teach not only all that is necessary to make
the pupils good surveyors, but all that can enlarge their minds
and Ax their principles, provided that it does not render them
so different from the other natives as to be odious to their
countrymen. On the other hand, there are some studies ad-
verted to by Captain Sutherland which might be more con-
veniently left to future observation—I mean the knowledge of
soil and all circumstances that affect its productive powers.
The theory might be taught to a certain extent, but it is to
practice that we must trust for the advancement of the most
useful part of this branch of knowledge.
' The establishment ought further to embrace some pro-
vision for the education of judicial servants, a point on the
extreme necessity of which we have been so often urged by the
Sudder Adawlut.
' Should the whole of these views be approved, they might
lead to the formation of an establishment sufficiently extensive,
combined with the Hindoo College and the institution for the
higher branches of science recommended under the seventh head
of my minute of December 13, 1823, to admit of the appoint-
ment of a European superintendent, without which it could
scarcely be expected that so great an undertaking would pros-
per. But as we cannot venture on a measure of this nature
without the previous sanction of the Court of Directors, I will
not at present enter into any of the details of the plan, but
content myself with proposing that it should be recommended
to the Court.
' It may seem an objection that it resembles the plan for a
native college at the Presidency which was submitted by us
in 1820, and which did not meet with the approbation of the
Honourable Court; but the failure of that measure may be
ascribed to its connection with the college for civil servants,
VOL. ii.
M