1850.] 



Education in Madras. 



385 



tween five and sixteen years of age, is receiving instruction ; of 

 whom 



C Are learning English, alone, or 

 < combined with Tamil or Teloogoo 

 £ or Mahratta or Greek, or Latin. 



SAre learning Tamil or Teloogoo, 

 alone ; or combined with Sanscrit 

 or Mahrattee, or Goozerattee or 

 Marwarree. 

 f Are acquiring Hindustanee, Per- 

 «. sian and Arabic. 



Total ... 19,188 in 789 Schools, or 24 children in each 



School in Madras, learning the above languages. 



With regard to the above it is merely necessary to remark that, 

 though in Switzerland and in some of the minor states of Ger- 

 many, of the children between the ages of 6 and 16, one in every 

 4 or one in every 5 are receiving education, in Prussia there is 

 being educated only 1 in every 6 ; in Scotland 1 in every 8 ; in Aus- 

 tria 1 in every 9 ; in France 1 in every 10*5 and in England 1 in 

 every 14. Madras, therefore, with its 1 in every 3'6 of those of its 

 youth to whom, in India, from their sex, age, and social state, in- 

 struction is usually imparted, ranks very high in the education 

 scale. But, even if 160,000 or ± of all the children in Madras 

 whether male or female, whether of the high, low, or out-cast, be 

 supposed to be between the ages of 5 and 16, the usual period dur- 

 ing which instruction is imparted, the proportion of each sex and 

 of all the social ranks, sects, casts and races, receiving scholas- 

 tic instruction, is still 1 in every 8 ; this proportion being equal 

 to that of Scotland and nearly \ better than England in the scale. 

 This result is quite in accordance with what the most casual ob- 

 server may have arrived at in a walk through the streets of this 

 City where schools, everywhere, meet the eye. The instruction im- 

 parted may possibly be indifferent, and even worthless subjects 

 may be taught, but, such as it is, there is no w r ant of instruction in 

 Madras. 



It is even likely that the above amount of instruction is under- 

 calculated. It will be observed, for instance, that 996 is the num- 

 ber of boys stated to be receiving instruction, in Persian, Hindus- 

 tanee and Arabic, but it is the custom amongst the Mahomedan 

 Schoolmasters on the four Eeds of the Rumzan, Bukreed, Akhree 



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Unudren. ocliool 



6,174 in 110 



12,018 in 618 



996 ™ fil 



