Sir Sankaran Nair on literary education

THE value of higher education and literary greatness is sometimes despised by those who attach importance to commercial and practical education. But Sir Sankaran Nair speaking on the 10th instant at the third Anniversary meeting of the Harris Literary Society at Madras called attention to the fact that Mahomedans of the south and the military castes were backward in education and did not value literary pursuits adequately. They all should work very hard, he said, and attain literary greatness. Otherwise the difficulties of the future generation would be insurmountable.