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The Auxiliary Committee, under the chairmanship of Sir Philip Hartog, which the Simon Commission appdinted to inquire into education in British India has issued its Report.. It is a gloomy document which seems to be all the sadder when one reflects that education is one of the "transferred " subjects. The bad tradition of education in India is well known. Indian students, unhappily encouraged in this course by their teachers, have regarded the ability to pass examinations as the end of education. Cramming, instead of education in any proper sense of the word, has dominated the syste am.• The Committee says that since education was transferred to the Provincial Governments there has been a noticeable increase of interest in it, but that except in the Punjab (where real progress his been made) and to a lesser extent in Bombay there has been no real break with the bad tradition.
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