He learns by heart one book and the notes of lectures of two or three of the favourite professors in Calcutta.

There is many a man who has even got through his examinations without any text-book of any kind to help him, simply by committing to memory volumes of lecture notes....

I know of no student who labours more strenuously than the Bengalee student.

The question is how to prevent this ridiculous wastage of students; how to prevent the production of this disappointed man who is a student only in name.

He never had any desire to be a student in nature; he was brought up without that desire ...