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are questions a consideration of which, in the national in. terest, will brook no delay? So long as they remain un. answered, an immense and tragic wastage will go on: was. tage of money, of hunan energy, and, most painful as also the most dangerous of all, wastage of human lives through a training out of tune with their aptitude and their envi. ronment."
The remedy is simple enough. Let each of the 5 Universities specialise in one or two branches of know. ledge, e.g. Allahabad in English and Mathematics, Lucknow in Science, Agra in History and Philosophy, Benares in Sanskrit and Engineering, and Aligarh in Arabic and Economics.
He further impressed upon the audience the need for preserving the natural intellectual heritage of India, in words which may by quoted with advantage.
The claims of the natural sciences, of technology, of the hundred and one new branches of knowledge, that Trans-atlantic fertility of mind invents and Trans-atlantic wealth can magnificiently house and elaborately equip, should not be allowed to make us forget the claims of our own héritage; the riches of philosophy, of literature, of religious experience and speculation that give to Asia and to this particular corner of Asia, India, & renown which only our own neglect can dim.
Speaking at the University Students' Conference at Allahabad, the same day, November 18, the Rt. Hon. Sir T. B. Sapru observed:
It was all very well for men comfortably situated in life to talk of knowledge and culture, advancing oulture and things of that kind. Do not go away with the impression, that I am hostile to culture. I want you to develop culture-culture not merely within the four corners of your university, but culture which will accompany you through all your successes and through all your failures, Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
