CHAPTER VI.
EDUCATIONAL WORK IN THE STATION DISTRICT.
The difficulty of determining the aim of educational missions The difficulty presented by different grades and standards The reason for excluding Colleges and Normal Schools at this stage First of the educational mission as designed to meet a distinct educational need Two tables designed to present the educational work in relation to area and population The necessity of considering non-missionary educational work The existence of non-missionary schools may either increase the need for missionary schools or decrease it The extent to which education is provided for the better educated and the more illiterate The extent to which education is provided for boys and girls, for Christian and non-Christian scholars The extent to which mission schools receive Government grants throws light on their character and purpose The extent to which education is provided for illiterate adults The importance of this The importance of the distinction between Christians and non-Christians in this table Then of the educational mission as designed to assist evangelistic work (i) The extent to which evangelists work with the educationalists in schools Caution needed in the use of this table (ii) The extent to which educationalists work with evangelists outside schools The importance of the work done by educationalists outside the schools (iii) The immediate evangelistic results of education given The difficulty The table proposed The support given by the Natives to medical and educational work.