Leveled Readings / Macaulay: Minute on Indian Education (1835)
Macaulay: Minute on Indian Education (1835)
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Minute on Indian Education (1835)
These are adaptations, not the original. The original wording is always shown first. Each adapted version restates the same passage at about a grade 4, grade 7, or grade 10 reading level without adding or removing ideas. Quote the original in student writing.
Original wording
“…a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia…”
Adapted · about grade 4
Macaulay claimed one shelf of European books was worth all the old books of India and Arabia.
Adapted · about grade 7
Macaulay claimed a single shelf of a good European library was worth all the native literature of India and Arabia.
Adapted · about grade 10
Macaulay asserted that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia.