I am firmly of opinion that the boycott of schools and colleges should be
carried on as effectively as before. I defer from the Civil Disobedience
Enquiry Committee when they propose the abandonment of the withdrawal of
boys from such schools and colleges. The question to my mind is of vital
importance. It is on the youth of the country that the cause of Swaraj
largely depends--and what chance is there for a nation which willingly,
knowingly sends its boys, its young men to schools and colleges to be
stamped with the stamps of slavery and foreign culture? I do not desire to
enter into the question more minutely. I have expressed my views on the
subject so often that I find it unnecessary to repeat them. I, however,
agree with the recommendation of the Enquiry Committee that national
schools and colleges should also be started.