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. –“What Educated Women Can Do,” Indira Gandhi What type of reasoning does the speaker use in this excerpt? deductive; she begins with a premise, then follows the pattern of that premise deductive; she begins with an anecdote, then explains its larger meaning inductive; she begins with a general case, then leads to a specific example inductive; she begins with a specific premise, then follows it to a broad conclusion