"The thrice failed boy"

Education is the life of civilized people and it is as necessary that every citizen should receive decent education as it is that he is a lawful and moral being. When this view is admitted it requires no great effort to understand the hardship caused by a rule which closes the doors of education against a student who happens to fail in an examination more than twice. Moreover an Indian has to pass his tests in a foreign tongue and his difficulties are as real and great as those of English students passing a Sanskrit, Persian and Arabic examination. We doubt if the educational authorities in the UP fully recognize the fairness of dealing with Indian students as they are. A correspondent writing to the "Pioneer" on the subject of the "thrice failed boy" tries to point out the injustice of shutting out the luckless students from schools merely because they fail to prove their fitness in three chances.