guished themselves in a remarkable manner do
not for one reason or other find facilities for entering the higher
Educational Service.... I should like to add that these highly qualified
Indians need only opportunities to render service which would greatly
advance the cause of higher education.... If promising Indian graduates
are given the opportunity of visiting foreign Universities, I have no
doubt that they would stand comparison with the best recruits that can
be obtained from the West.... As teachers and workers it is an
incontestable fact that Indian Officers have distinguished themselves
very highly, and anything which discriminates between Europeans and
Indians in the way of pay and prospects is most undesirable. A sense of
injustice is ill-calculated to bring about that harmony which is so
necessary among all the members of an educational institution,
professors and students alike."[27] Pressing next for a high level of
scholarship, in the Indian Educational Service, he wrote:--

"It has been said that the present standard of Indian Universities
is not as high as that of British Universities, and that the work
done by the former is more like that of the 6th form of the public
schools in England. It is therefore urged that what is required for
an Educational officer in the capacity to manage classes rather than
high scholarship. I do not agree with these views. (1) There are
Universities in Great Britain whose standards are not higher than
ours; I do not think that the Pass Degree even of Oxford or
Cambridge is higher than the corresponding degree here (2) the
standard of the Indian University is being steadily raised; (3) the
standard will depend upon what the men entrusted with Educational
work will make it. For these reasons it is necessary that the level
of scholarship represented by the Indian Educational Service should
be maintained very high."[28]

He then dwelt on what should be the aim of Higher Education in India and
observed as follows:--

"... I think that all the machinery to improve the higher
education in India would be altogether ineffectual unless India
enters the world movement for the advancement of knowledge. And for
this it is absolutely necessary to touch the imagination of the
people so as to rouse them to give their best energies to the work
of research and discovery, in which all the nations of the world