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free, liberal, ond practical, but to vide primary, secondery and higher what extent these efforts have be- education to the poor students of come successful can be judged only their class, that even lower classes from the consequences there of. A are offered oppurtunities to take hot discussion is going on at present :education and to benefit themselves amongst the men of erudition and Sc- by the use thereof. These are all holarship of the time whether the good signs. These are all signs for task of imparting instructions be the progress and civilization of India joined with the lectures on moral in the near future. But to bring a principles, whether moral education glorious day earlier in India, we is & necessary element, whether reli- need still the spreading of education gion has any part in the sphere of far and wide, not only free but education and it is a matter of great compulsory and it is a good fortune pleasure to see that most of the of ours to see that efforts are not learned men have come to a conclu- neglected in this direction by the sion that moral education is the most leaders of our country. For effecting essential element in the system of this purpose it is the duty of every every society and that no system of dutiful son of India to do whatever education can be perfect without the he can in this common and noble tinge of religiosity therein which leads cause of spreading right education to the formation of character and per- amongst his brothers. ception of divine love in humanity.
Before proceeding further I will Having difined very briefly the first of all remove from your mind, goal of perfect education, I shall the idea that India has increased go on to discuss how far has India in education. A very good beginning in general and the Jains in parti- is already made in spreading cular have grasped this spirit of edu- education more and more, by the help cation and how far we have of the Benign British Government. made progress in different lines. However in comparision with our
There is no doubt that the Nations, we are at a miserable bottom. number of schools goes on increasing The latest statistics showing the peryear after year, that the people are centage of educated persons. i. e. of realizing the utility of learning in those persons who can simply read every profession, that the number of and write are as follows:students in every school and college England 99. p. c. Holland 98 is found increasing every year, there p. c. Japan 95 p. c. America 94 is no doubt that our Universites are p. 0,--India 31 p. c.--from which producing a large number of gradu. you can see that inspite of all these ates every year in different faculties, measures, in the cause of education. that facilities are being made by the the greatest mass of our people is leaders of every community to pro- illiterate, ignorant and grozring in
