Some time ago, the students of the University of Cordova went through the streets in a procession, and the words written on their banners were the famous words of Goethe, “Light, more light.” The youth of India, too, ask for “light, more light.”
Schools are multiplying; the power of the press is growing; young men want to know more about modern life and modern movements. “Light, more light!” But the question is—what light!
A young man in fashionable dress and proud of his little English learning, felt shy of showing respect to his own father because he did not know English and was clothed in the simple dress of an earlier generation. Not this the true light of knowledge. And I have known young men proud of their learning but using it, abusing it, to rob others of their money and self-respect. Such learning is not the light the country needs.
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