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........THE SO CALLED UPPER CLASSES WILL BE WIPED OUT OF EXISTENCE
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, leader of the Scheduled Castes, told the Youth Assembly in Bombay on Saturday the 2nd May
1953 to go to the masses and rid them of their superstitious inheritance.
He was inaugurtating the summer school of the Assembly at the Siddharth College:
Dr. Ambedkar deplored mere academic proficiency and advised modern youth to select one or two contemporary problems and tackle them in a rational manner.
He was bewildered by the number of political ideologies which had infiltrated the student world, probably due to foreign influences.
He asked the assembly to formulate a plan with definite objects in view and eschew lectures in Philosophy or European history if it sought concrete results.
Dr. Ambedkar warned that unless the so-called upper classes made an immediate and balanced appraisal of present times, they would be ‘wiped out of existence.’
“The time has come when small groups of students must go to the masses and teach them to lead a rational life,” he remarked.
He described modem society as a mangled one, living in modern times the ideals of ancient society.
He observed that we had adopted a Constitution totally different from the principles and rules which really governed our pattern of life.
Dr. B. G. Gokhale, President of the Youth Assembly, welcomed Dr. Ambedkar. [1]
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1 : The Sunday Standard, dated 3rd May 1953.