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to note that the numbers of boys at the Manomah school
for instance continues to increase.. X should think that
sooner or later the Syrian Inspector v/ill have to go; but

once again the groat difficulty is to find someone to replace
him and it is quite likely that efforts v/ill be made to
prevent the post being filled at all if he does go. When

some change is made I would recommend that it should include
an arrangement for State inspection of and control over
private schools. My own view is that Bahrain should aim
at more or less universal primary education, continued and
possibly extended technical education, and limited higher

education to provide for the "intake" needs of the Govern­
ment itself and of commercial houses. One great difficulty
is to kill the belief that any youth who has acquired a
little education is ipso facto too accomplished a person

to undertake manual labour. It is interesting to note that
the experience of the Bahrain Petroleum Company is that it
gets far better results in training coolies for semi-skilled
work than it does with ex school-boys, I imagine that other
countries have had similar difficulties and it would bo

very interesting, if it were possible, to obtain information
on the methods that they have adopted to prevent education
interfering v/ith the labour market. Some sort of propaganda
in schools in regard to the "dignity of labour" is obviously

required and any assistance which we could provide in this
respect would be extremely valuable, I am bound to admit
however that I do not know how we set about getting it.
As for the Police, there have been one or two cases

lately in which complaints have been made that respectable
people have been arrested without cause, but I should antici­
pate that with Belgrave's return things will be bettor. To
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