"I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could"
Mohandas K. Ghandi
Sometimes people just need to be reminded of what they already know. We all know about truth and nonviolence, and at some level we all value them. But over the course of our lives they get forgotten because they often don't seem to be useful to us for dealing with today's urgent problems. We tend to be focused on dealing with what life gives us today instead of on the broader and more permanent issues that affect everyone.
Probably the best way to remind people of what they value is to take it away from them. As the song says "You don't know what you've got till it's gone". Often that is not ethical or even practical, however. Doing experiments is a better way to get people to sit up and take notice. It helps to show people what can happen when you behave in certain ways, and when large groups of people behave in certain ways. People start to see causes and results. They begin to see what can happen when they change their thinking.
The best way of all to accomplish anything is to get as many people to do it as possible. Get as many people to understand your way of thinking as possible. Show as many people as possible what you beleive in and why. Influencing small numbers of people yeilds small results. Influence as many people as possible for the largest possible results. Experiment on as vast a scale as you can.
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