But whilst there is a very general consensus that more should be done by the State for primary education, there is no unanimity as to its being made free and compulsory.

Various Indian members of Council have expressed themselves against it on different grounds.

Some contend that many parents cannot afford, as bread-winners, to be deprived of the help of their children.

According to others, there is already much complaint amongst parents that school-going boys do not make good agriculturists and affect to consider work in the fields as beneath their dignity.

Others, again, ask, and with some reason, who is going to care for boys of that age who may have to leave their homes and be removed from parental control in order to attend school.