A general advance in education has been adopted as the policy of the Government of Gengal and it has been decided not only to increase the number of primary: schools but to make a radical al teration of the system involving a large expenditure on the training of teachers. The Government, i introducing its proposals points out that the number of primary schoole, in Bengalis insufficient. that the methods of imparting knowledge in, this branch of education is very, unsatisfactory inasmuch as many who pass through the _primary schools relapse into illiteracy and, that the number of children attend: ing the schools is very low consider-' ing the size of the population, The faults of the system are largely due to that old evil, the underpay-iment of teachers, and te counteract tthe effects it ie proposed to off: better stipends in order to attract, to the profession of primary school teaching a type of teacher superior in qualifications to those at present employed. Tt is pointed out that the present proposals are limited to rural aveas where the problem of, education ie more urgent than in the towns which, as is pointed out, have Ample powers to deal with the extension of primary education within their own jurisdiction "if they 0 desire. It is pointed ost that, inasmuch as no District Board would ye the time competently to deal with the many intrieat: emblems
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