Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India May 1938

III A careful scrutiny of the scriptures of the Hindus and the Mohammedans discloses the fact that the points of agreement between the two are more pronounced and remarkable than those of difference. [...] By starlight by sunlight and moonlight in the fields and woods on the hill-tops and by the riveside in flowers and flight of birds in the ripples of the wind in the shifting play of light and colour she saw that Beauty and hugged it to her bosom and became happy. [...] The value of the scheme is enhanced by the fact that Mahatma Gandhi has taken the help of some of the outstaning educationalists of our land and the scheme cannot therefore be brushed aside as the dreams of a visionary at the death's gate." To Mahatma Gandhi the future policy of education ought to be constructive real and suiable to the needs of our soil and should be directed towards the [...] (2) The pupils should become acquainted with the pulic utility services the working of the panchayat and co-operative society the"226 PRABUDDHA BHARATA May duties of the public servants the costitution of the District Board or Muncipality the use and significance of the vote and with the growth and signficance of representative institutions. [...] direct observation of the sun ; changes in the height of the noonday sun at different times of the year; reading of the weather-wane; thermometer and barometer ; methods of recording temperature and pressure ; records of rainy and dry days and of the rain-fall; prevailing wind directions; duration of day and night in different months etc.).