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making doctors but society gets no advantage of their services. This second phase on one side “makesa person a misfit in his home, a misfit in his town and causes frustration in the youth which we can not allow to stand any longer," and on the other side it fails "to reach and teach every one who is reachable" as the benifit only lable comes to an individual or to the urbon areas “because the people with education leaves the rural areas and go to the urban areas."
In enculturation, a student was, immediately coming from the university, lost in common culture. In the second phase the student is lost to the society, Now we want, both the individual and society, none of them to be lost. “The new education policy will be for all Indians. It must bo egalitarian. It must give equal access" in the sense that "an attempt must be made to give access to the best type of education, to the ‘most intellegent children no matter from which section of society they come.” The ultimate objective must be the integration of Individual interest with National Interest. "Today the biggest thrust must be for national integration and unity. While developing regional culture, while not killing regional tendencies, we have to see that they do not develop in a manner that destroys or weakens our national entity, identity.” Today, “we have to see that our education process reduce violence in society. It should challenge the concept of matterialism or consumerism which is being thrust on us” Moreover, it has “to culcivate secularism, socialism, democracy and nationalism, and nurture the correct moral values.
So a need was felt that the aim and philosophy of education should not be mere development of an individuality at the cost of society. Individuals should be integrated with the society. "The new education policy is an attempt to relink learning with life as it is in India, whether in rural or urban areas, in the tribal areas, in the hills, mountains or in the forests." Tho student is neither to be fitted in the existing culture not to be made exclusive individual who can: be of no use to society. The development of the individual must cuntribute to the development of the society. The progress of the
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