This is Lord Macaulay's speech to the British Parliament . Lord Macaulay imparted the 3R's and that became our model of education system . Nothing wrong in learning something new . But our pristine culture , heritage and self-esteem got adrift in the process . The Gurukul system of imparting education was forgotten in the wilderness . Alongside , English , Sanskrit , Hindi and other regional languages should have been taught to the denizens of this great land . But the motive was to destroy our culture to perpetuate their hegemony .
A fake. It doesn't really make sense for that time, and he didn't make such a speech. (It also uses U.S. spelling....) See, for example:
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