· The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.

MM-405.

· If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.

XXV-317

· My Swaraj takes note of the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these.

XXV-564

· A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

T-2-63

· Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence.

T-5-277

· If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sakes.

T-3-300

The Aseema Trust has been conducting sporadic workshops with Charkha spinning as a tool to discuss respect for diversity, peaceful conflict resolutions and need for cleanliness in public sanitation. There has been very enthusiastic response and the demand for a sustained workshop in this area from many schools.

Ongoing "spin a yarn" project in schools is to have spinning on the spinning wheel as a craft activity around which children discuss and learn about conflict resolution, respect for diversity, sanitation and respect for ecology. The object of the project is to look at bringing about a change in Attitude, Skill and Knowledge in the participants at the end of the year.

The Aseema Trust also successfully completed the one year project "Spin a Yarn - Self and Society" in ten schools of Chennai to bring in spinning on the charkha as an activity and to discuss Mahatma Gandhi's ideals of peace education and cleanliness for social action.

The Aseema Trust is working on teacher workshops on Gandhi in Education, Performing arts as a teaching tool in partnership with Lisle International.