I will teach them spinning and when they come and ask me for the services of a weaver, I will find them a weaver on the same terms as I found them a teacher. And the weaver will teach them how to weave their own cloth. This is my conception of Samagra Gramaseva. Then I will say that we cannot hope to improve our villages in this age. . . . He has money but his strength does not lie in his money.
Real strength lies in knowledge.
True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength. Everyone seeks the advice of such a man. The villagers should develop such a high degree of skill that articles prepared by them should command a ready market outside. When our villages are fully developed, there will be no dearth in them of men with a high degree of skill and artistic talent. There will be village poets, village artists, village architects, linguists and research workers.