Harijan Ahmedabad — Sunday March 8 1942

At the time of the English Conquest there were the Angles in the East the Saxons in the South the Britons in the West the Jutes already in parts of the South and the Picts and the Scots in the North. [...] Thus the peasant spoke of the beasts he tended in the farmyard as the sheep the ox the calf; the rich man called the roasts served at his table mouton boeuf and veau. [...] No other word can describe the state of 97 per cent of the population who have been decreed by the gods and goddesses of this precious religion as impure and unclean beings fit only to serve the remaining 3 per cent of the population We would far rather suggest to the students to prepare in their laboratories of the mind deadly bombs which would completely smash and destroy' Hinduism the greatest [...] Effect on Teachers While the beneficial effect of the new scheme on children is definitely encouraging and in marked contrast to the dullness and apathy existing in most village schools the Talimi Sangh has rightly recognised the importance of the effect on any scheme of education on the teachers. [...] The history of the first three years of basic education as set forth in the report of the Talimi Sangh gives ample cause for believing that the scheme is sound.