Education can nowhere be a question of mere pedagogics, and least of all in India.

Yet there is evidently a strong tendency to treat it as such.

To take only one instance, the tasks imposed upon schoolboys and students by the exigencies of an elaborate curriculum are often excessive, and there have been cases when the intervention of other authorities has been necessary to bring the education officers to listen to the reasonable grievances of parents.

If in these and other matters parents were more freely consulted, they would probably be more disposed to give education officers the support of their parental authority.

There are many points upon which native opinion would not be so easily misled by irreconcilable politicians if greater trouble were taken to explain the questions at issue.
What is evidently much wanted is greater elasticity.