This is an evil which no change in the relative number of Europeans and natives employed in Government and other services could materially affect.

Even if every Englishman left India, it would present just as grave a problem to the rulers of the country, except that the bitterness engendered would not be able to vent itself, as it too often does now, on the alien rulers who have imported the alien system of education by which many of those who fail believe themselves to have been cruelly duped.
Similar causes have operated to produce discontent amongst the teachers, who in turn inoculate their pupils with the virus of disaffection.

It was much easier to multiply schools and colleges than to train a competent teaching staff.

Official reports seldom care to look unpleasant facts in the face, and the periodical reports both of the Imperial Department of Public Education and of the Provincial Departments have always been inclined to lay more stress upon the multiplication of educational institutions and the growth in the numbers of pupils and students than upon the weak points of the system.
Nevertheless, there is one unsatisfactory feature that the most confirmed optimists cannot ignore.

Hardly a single one of these reports but makes some reference to the deficiencies and incapacity of the native teaching staff.