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tion. Even ten years ago Chinese parents were 
loath to send their girls to school. To-day there 
are Indian and Chinese girls passing out of the 
English schools to attend the Medical College and 
choosing medicine as a career. 
For the past decade Malays have been growing more 
and more anxious that their boys shall learn English 
and they have availed themselves eagerly of scholar- 
ships and free places. There is a flourishing Malay 
College or boarding school at Kuala Kangsar, Perak, 
to. train the sons of rajas and chiefs for official 
careers: it takes them up to the standard of the 
Senior Cambridge. 
Until recently the demand for pupils from the 
English schools as clerks was greater than the 
supply, and a Cambridge Certificate or the Standard 
YII Certificate was a commercial asset, ensuring a 
competency in adult life. To-day the supply is 
growing greater than the demand and parents are 
beginning to realise that the son of a shop-keeper, 
for example, may have to seek his living in his 
father’s shop, even though he has done well at an 
English school. With the spread of English educa- 
tion, knowledge of that language will cease to be 
an open Sesame to fortune or even to a livelihood, 
and one of the gravest problems to-day is to devise 
for the coming generation types of instruction fitting 
the young of Malaya for such careers as the country 
offers. There can be no doubt that the bulk of the 
inhabitants must turn to agriculture and other 
industries, and that the Education Department will 
have to equip them for those paths of life. Any 
ideal of education, not adjusted to local wants, must 
lead to economic dislocation and social unrest. 
