JUDGMENT

D. P. MADON, J. :—The destiny of a nation rests with its youth. As we shape its mind and mould its character, so do we fashion our countrys progress, prestige and prosperity. Wordworth truly said. "The Child is father of the Man", and Alexander Pope was equally right in saying in the first of his Moral Essays - Epistle I to Sir Richard Temple, Lord Cobham :

"Tis Education forms the common mind, Just as the Twig is bent, the Trees inclind."

It is, therefore, essential for a country to have a proper educational system. The general pattern of education in our country is, however, the traditional one of studying from prescribed textbooks, attending lectures based on such books and answering questions in examinations set from them. The study of text-books is often supplemented by reading books which are kept in school and college libraries. These books may be on various subjects - literature, history, art, science, geography, and even works of fiction. General reading is as essential for a student as it is for any man, for it is reading which broadens the mind and widens the horizon. It was for this reason that Bacon said in his essay, Of Studies, "Reading maketh a full man". Gen