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myuolf porhopo I do not approoiato thoir finor pointo#
Vallanoo'o acquaintance with Iraq in too ohort to remombor how
in the nintaon .twenties all the Britishers on the Iraq pay roll
wero far more Iraqi than the Iraqi a thcmDOlvoo and full of zeal

in teaching them that they wore "on an abooluto oquality" with
other nations# The only harvest of this oocd was a fino crop
of xonophobia# and the saolc for moat, of tho ooworo aa aoon ao
the Iraqio oaroe into power I

7. I entirely disagree that all children should bo taught
English# When 1 came to Alvrar I found tho uoual liaoh had been
mado of education (two-tliirdB of the money opant on one-tenth

of tho boye t) and I wao able to get the Educational Commisoion-
er with tho Government of India to come and adviuo how to
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re-organize it# He laid down the principle that all primary
oduoation ohould bo in the vernacular and that where English
wao taught after tho fourth otandard some feo no matter how
omall should be levied# When I wont out to &in al Hakim
rooently at Bahrain tho gardener's eon grooted mo by saying

"goodnight" though it wao full afternoon# What is the use
of pumping English into theoo people ?

8# I entirely agree with Vallanoc that the Technical
‘ Jchool should be encouraged in every poauiblo way, and that
80hools should enoourage boya to enter it# Host of tho
Chief8 Colleges in India now include eome form of raanuul train-
ing in thoir ourx'iculume# and it would be an exoollcnt thing

if all tho Bahrain schools copied this# You have mentioned
in various reports that the Oil Company ie the destination
of the majority of Bahrain ochoolboyo# Let ub recognize this
frankly and adapt tho higher schools of the State to meet it#

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