The Bengal Renaissance - pg. 172

Akshay Kumar believed in the essential needs of education
for all and in the obligation of the government and the rich
and educated public to ensure universal education. He would
not have children even of the poorest strata employed in
parental profession or other kinds of vocation before they
received compulsory education upto fourteen or fifteen years
of age - a social target that has not been achieved even after a
century and a quarter in this country.