MILITARY BARRACKS FROM GALLE FACE,

CHAPTER III.

FDUCATION IN CEYLON.

i. AARWARD. M.A.. Director of Public Instruction, Ceylon.

Introductory.
"E Tropical Colony is one of the problems of
the twentieth century. How to govern such a
dependency without the deterioration either of
rulers or of ruled, or possibly of both ;—how
to transplant into minds in one stage of evolution
 ideas which belong to another, without at
the same time destroying the sources of moral and social
order ;—how to encourage independence without undermining
 loyalty ;—how to make an idle population industrious
without reverting to slavery ;—these and other questions
bearing on the problem are easier to raise than to answer.
[n the United States it is hardly necessary to point out that
they are in a great measure educational questions, and that
the most important point which a Government taking over a
new dependency has to face is the settlement of its
educational policy. Are its subjects to be educated at all ?
If so, on what lines? Should a wholesale measure be
introduced, or should the change be made as gradual as
possible ?
The answers to such questions must depend largely on the
circumstances of the people concerned. What is right in
Jealing with races, like those of Ceylon, that have had in the