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same strategy may be adopted with advantage in the less advanced
 countries. What is urgently needed is to lay the foundations,
 with as wide a base as possible, for a country-wide
system of school education oriented to science and, at the
same time, to develop advanced studies of science and technology
 and research at the highest level. The school system
must fit into the economic life of the general mass of the people
and have its grass roots in the villages. It must offer facilities
for training technicians and technical personnel for science and
‘echnology and also supply candidates of outstanding merit for
admission to higher scientific and technological institutions.

5. NEED OF DIRECT AID FOR SCIENCE

6.1. I shall offer, briefly, a few suggestions for giving direct
aid for the development of science in the less advanced coun-‘ries.
 I have stressed the need of building up a system of school
education with a definite orientation to science. It would be,
however, a fatal mistake to establish an expensive system of
sducation on the model of the advanced countries which would
have little relevance to local needs and would be beyond the
means of the national economy. It is necessary to evolve a
system, through experimentation and trial and success, which
would be within the means of the national economy. The approach
 must be therefore to use teaching aids which are easily
available or can be made available on a large scale and at a
low cost. As most of the pupils will be living in villages, it
would be of great advantage if agriculture and some of the rural
industries can be adopted as a base for the teaching of science.
The programme may consist largely of nature studies, observations,
 and experiments which can be done with the help of
simple articles, specimens, etc., likely to be locally available
or which can be constructed with local materials.

ig] Mahalanobis I - pag. 27