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that kind, with the connecting links which I suggest,
is the system for which, it seems to me, we should be
working, aiming—although we might realise it slow-
ly—at nothing less than that complete linked educa-
tion, in order that India may grow to be great among
the nations, as she cannot be until she consists of an
educated people.
Then we come to my second question : Who is to
do it ? and here I said I would suggest more than one
line. The Government alone, I submit, cannot fully
deal with this question, though it should help largely.
It is too big. But is there anything else within reach
which may begin to deal with it gradually ? Those
of you who followed what I was saying last week
about the co-operative societies in the villages will at
once see that at which I now am aiming. I submit
that wherever there is a co-operative society, a credit
bank, or any one of those co-operative associations
which are spreading so rapidly not only in this Presi-
dency but elsewhere, every such association shall have
a village school connected with it and under its own
control. For just think for a moment of the machinery
available. You have in your co-operative associations,
as we saw, a Pafichayat established—the old village
rule, the old communal idea, that out of the elders of
the village itself the administrators of the village are
to be taken. Such a Pafichayat exists wherever there
is a co-operative society. Suppose the next step should
be that you should add to that number—-generally about
is the system for which, it seems to me, we should be
working, aiming—although we might realise it slow-
ly—at nothing less than that complete linked educa-
tion, in order that India may grow to be great among
the nations, as she cannot be until she consists of an
educated people.
Then we come to my second question : Who is to
do it ? and here I said I would suggest more than one
line. The Government alone, I submit, cannot fully
deal with this question, though it should help largely.
It is too big. But is there anything else within reach
which may begin to deal with it gradually ? Those
of you who followed what I was saying last week
about the co-operative societies in the villages will at
once see that at which I now am aiming. I submit
that wherever there is a co-operative society, a credit
bank, or any one of those co-operative associations
which are spreading so rapidly not only in this Presi-
dency but elsewhere, every such association shall have
a village school connected with it and under its own
control. For just think for a moment of the machinery
available. You have in your co-operative associations,
as we saw, a Pafichayat established—the old village
rule, the old communal idea, that out of the elders of
the village itself the administrators of the village are
to be taken. Such a Pafichayat exists wherever there
is a co-operative society. Suppose the next step should
be that you should add to that number—-generally about