Harijan Poona — Saturday January 7 1939

He wrote and said all kinds of things but I do not think he ever regretted the part he had played in the history of the nation during the earlier years and the views expressed by Maulana Mahomed Ali in his Congress Presidetial address were views expressed on behalf of both the brothers and may yet be regarded as the brothers’ testament to the nation. [...] 4. A careful study should be made of the peculiar tastes and requirements of the clientale which the bhandar is intended to serve and the bhandar should be* well stocked with all the varieties and lines that are likely to be in request so that the people will learn to inquire at the khadi \bhandar for the satisfation of their requirements before they go anywhere else. [...] The teacher makes use of the environment of the child and the home. [...] The community becomes the school and the conditions of the child's background become the teachers' problem. [...] There is little danger of getting into ruts or of becoming boring when the tools of education are not only the books of the classroom and library and the machinery of farm and shop but also the daily problems of life — work play birth death marriage and home-making.