The Hunter Commission recommended the withdrawal of government support to

The Hunter Commission of 1882 advised the state to gradually withdraw from the direct management of collegiate and higher education, leaving it largely to private and missionary enterprise.

Adult education was not its concern, so no withdrawal was proposed there.

Moral and religious instruction was left to individual managements, not marked for withdrawal of aid.

Primary education was to be expanded with greater state attention, the very opposite of withdrawal.

It was formally the Indian Education Commission, headed by William Hunter.

Its stress on spreading mass primary education shaped later education policy.