Show Indians Astound Speech Head Bead Makes Plea For Girls' Girls School C 1 t J P 3 f J Educational System Antiquated One of the most astonishing of all ll th the astonishing experiences that aced me at turn every every turn on my world trip rip was the really thrilling gymnastic gymnastic gymnastic gym gym- exercises at one of the Nationalist Nationalist Na- Na High Schools in Benga- Benga lore ore in southern India After years of struggle the th English government govern government government ment h has s at last permitted Ghandi o 0 establish high schools for boys boys boys- I 1 I 1 put in a plea for girls schools as well So veil So these schools are being built milt as far and wide in India as limited means mean will permit The e schools are re new well built nice looking buildings and thoroughly up to date A great contrast to the private schools mostly sHy sectarian the he only means of education in Indin In In- din dia England has never done anything anything any- any thing hing for education in this pathetic land and To compre comprehend end the near insurmountable insurmountable insurmountable mountable difficulty of uniting and nationalizing India we must realize realize real- real ize ze that the millions of Indians different different dif dif- speak one hundred and twenty ferent languages No wonder these people has been ruled over-ruled and rc- rc ruled over-ruled by different powers and lastly by England for one hundred years But these people each province province pro pro- vince speaking a language not understood understood un un- un- un d out of that province have yet retained something of nationality nationality nationality nation nation- if not of unity One of Ghandi's Ghandi's Ghandi's Ghan- Ghan dis di's ideas of passive resistance is to conquer through education and andI unifying all the people by training them to speak one language Hindustani Hindustani Hindustani Hin Hin- is the most generally known known of all this myriad of tongues tongues tongues ton ton- gues and has therefore been the theone theone theone one chosen as the official Nationalist Nationalist Nationalist Nation Nation- alist language and the one taught in all their schools On the open play ground of the National High School were a hundred fine clean clean physically cally and morally clean young young men in short white robes robes- much like the Greek croton bare legs and arms with Ghandi white caps on their heads They were taking their physical exercise led by a splendid physical specimen of youthful I manhood The perfect the I i precision and the beauty of their j exercises were thrilling With no 1 Continued on page 2 2 |