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. In fact to the young graduates the right path is never shown; like sheep they follow the beaten path and the result is afterwards despair. I know of many B. A,s and L L. B,s knocking in vain at other's doors for service. Poor fellows, we pity them. They deserve a better fate.
I don't think by one article in this paper I can solve the whole problem of higher education but as a partial ren edypropose that if some graduates are directed into some other chamel, I am sure the results will be more encouraging. The other untrodden path is that of "Higher Technical Education". In India we have no higher Technical Schools. We should be proud of having one when Tata's Research Institute comes into existence. I propose that the Jaina SweTamber Conference should select choice graduates who have passed with Science and should send them to different countries for taking higher Technical Education. It may not be out of place to mention here that what students learn here in Science tiil M. A. is mere elementary. It is only the alphabets of Science they study here, for further advancement they must be sent to other countries. Any one who takes any interest in Higher Technical Education is not unfamiliar with gigantic Technical Schools of Germany. To such or similar institutions in any country one graduate at least should be sent every year. The candidates must be selected by a committee chosen by our Graduates' Association.
Such students may take up any special branch of Science for which they have a special liking and when they return they will either support the dying industries or will start new industries. I know, this means expense but I know equally well that our Community is not yet poor. Many of our Jains are more anxious to spend after 9841, og alt ste, yzdžligtthan after education but they do not know that if the education of a rising generation is on a solid foundation all the other virtues will immedliately follow. We live in the days of competition and if we have to maintain our position as one of the advanced and richest communities of India we have to do it, and the sooner we begin, the better it is for us. The famous Professor Strongarm has truly said "The destinies of countries are decided in Colleges and Laboratories”.
