পাতা:Reminiscences Speeches And Writings Of Sir Gooroo Dass Banerjee Reminiscences pt. 1.pdf/১৬৮

EvKNT's or HIs I.I.E.: that is not the case. Among the books submitted for examination, the number of good books, literary or scientific, is very small; and by far the greater number are Primers in English and Bengali, Arithmetical, Grammatical and Geographical Primers, and rose and Poetical Readers consisting of compilations from different authors, -containing little that is original in point of matter or of form, and running for the most part in beaten tracks, with only such occasional deviations (often in the wrong direction) as are considered necessary to give each book the appearance of newness. The multiplication of such books is un civil without any compensating good. It has led to much unhealthy compotition among authors, the injurious consequences of which affect not authors alone but their readers also. 3. It has given rise to a most unreasonable'. and perplexing diversity in the choice of text-books; so that if a student has for any reason to take his transfer from one school to another in the middle of a session, he will find it extremely difficult to go on, as he will, in nine cases out of ten, have to read a different set of text-books. And even in the same school, it often happens that different text-books of the same standard in the same subject are prescribed for two consecutive classes, so that students have to read the same portion of a subject in two successive years from two different books, without making much real progress, when by that time they could have finished the subject if they had only continued to r •፡ud