Read the excerpt from "What Educated Women Can
Do" by Indira Gandhi.
Before anybody does anything, he has to have, of
course, knowledge and capability, but along with it he
has to have a certain amount of pride in what he or she
is doing. He has to have self-confidence in his own
ability. If your teacher tells [you], "You cannot do this,"
even if you are a very bright student I think every time
you will find, it will be more and more difficult for you to
do it. But if your teacher encourages [you] saying, "Go
along you have done very good work, now try a little
harder," then you will try a little harder and you will be
able to do it. And it is the same with societies and with
countries.
How could Gandhi have made her argument more
effective?
O by giving an example of a society that was
encouraged to do well
by telling a story about a teacher whose
encouragement helped her
Oby drawing a general conclusion about the power of
encouragement
Oby emphasizing her claim that those who are
encouraged will do better