THE NEW DISPENSATION AND SCHOOL EDUCATION 85 rapid or effective change in the educational situation. There is a need to fight the feudal-casteist stranglehold, to fight the dead weight of bureaucracy and to integrate the fight for education with the fight for social emancipation. Even to arrest the decay that has set in the education system—to motivate the teacher to teach, to fight corruption and to initiate some academic innovation, democratisation is essential. It is also clear that such democratisation cannot be brought about by this government or by the blooming of a hundred voluntary groups. The solution really lies in building up mass struggle. Until the mass of the people get activised in struggles and until the masses dismantle the old and begin to build anew—we can only talk of educational change and experiment in pockets—we can not really change. Note: In writing this paper we had extensive discussions with a number of friends, we would like to acknowledge in particular our indebtedness to Dr. Sushil Joshi and Ms. Sadhna Saxena.