Apparently, then, the colleges of India were doing what our high schools have long been doing -- richly over-supplying the market for highly-educated service; and thereby doing a damage to the scholar, and through him to the country.
At home I once made a speech deploring the injuries inflicted by the high school in making handicrafts distasteful to boys who would have been willing to make a living at trades and agriculture if they had but had the good luck to stop with the common school.

But I made no converts.
Not one, in a community overrun with educated idlers who were above following their fathers' mechanical trades, yet could find no market for their book-knowledge.

The same rail that brought me the letter from the Punjab, brought also a little book published by Messrs.

Thacker, Spink & Co., of Calcutta, which interested me, for both its preface and its contents treated of this matter of over-education.

In the preface occurs this paragraph from the Calcutta Review.