Mrs. Naidu on Women’s Education

THERE was appropriateness in the delivery by Mrs. Sarojini Naidu of a speech on the education of women at the anniversary of the Kanya Mahavidyalaya, Jullundur. One of the most gifted and cultured of Indian women at the present time, no one could be better fitted that Mrs. Naidu to speak on this inspiring theme; and no place could be better fitted for the delivery of the lecture than the Kanya Mahavidyalaya. And the speech that she did make was worthy both of herself and the occasion. It was one strong, earnest, passionate and sustained plea for the education of the sex that gives us our mothers, our wives and our sisters. "Pray do not forget," she said "that a lame person can walk but slowly, that a one-eyed man sees only one side, and that a carriage with one wheel in order cannot move properly." As a matter of fact a society which neglects the education of women is an even worse position that any of the three things in the analogy.

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