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ment of a very carefully considered kind upon the subject. 
But I will say this much, that I have serious misgivings about 
a great deal of science that is being taught. It seems to 
me that there is a great deal of science being taught which 
is not likely to issue in anything practical or in anything 
really intellectual. The demand at present in this country 
for the highest science, the demand for the scientific expert, 
is limited. It must grow. But I think it will only grow 
in proportion to the industrial development of the country. 
You must remember that in my own country science lagged 
behind industry. Industry reached a high pitch of develop- 
ment before science was widely taught. The result was 
that when we began to teach science industrits were already 
waiting for it. But if you attempt at present to train a large 
number of men in the highest kind of special science in India, 
I am afraid you will find difficulty in giving them employment. 
Well then, if that is so, you will wish to do something less. 
Now how much less would be of value? My opinion is that 
the thing that would be most valuable to the country, the 
thing that is most needed, is the sound teaching of the very 
elements of science and the dissemination throughout the 
schools of a realization of what science is and what it can 
do. Until that knowledge is diffused, until the rising 
generations of India realize very clearly what science is, 
what it has done, what it can do, what it may do for this 
country, the demand will not arise for the highly trained 
scientist who is to take his place in the development of your 
industries. Of all the things that I have done at Lahore or tried 
to do, that which has given me most satisfaction has been 
a small attempt that I have made to help the science teachers 
in the schools. And I believe, if I had to prescribe for 
India the action which I think would tend to the greatest 
good at the present time, it would be the improvement of 
science in your schools. Take more trouble in the prepara- 
