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TULSI-PRAJNA has exercised the choice in favour of the privileged ones”. So long as class distinction and elite and sophisticated culture persists the form and context of the present education system is not going to con. tain the forces of growing resentment. It is generally observed pains takingly that the higher the level of education the lower is the academic acquisition in the real sense of the term. On the basis of many imperial evidences, one is, but, compelled to say that, with the ascendency of the level of the education corrupting forces get them
elves strengthened and academic excellence virtually get reduced to unproductive magnificence year after year.
In fact, education today has become something of status symbol, a privilege. It promises jobs for the few people. What people as a whole fail to realise is that true education is that which produces the perfect human being. Samuel Johnson said, books without the knowledge of life are useless. Academic education is only means to hasten true education. And ture education is one that makes people of character and high calibre.
The present educational process has caused alienation from others. It fosters maximum gathering of information and competence. It is based on an antagonistic spirit or competition and fosters a randomi, causal, egaistie, happy-go-lucky approach to civic realities and responsibilities. Even Research and Training Programmes were neither developed adequately nor applied to qualitative improvements which failed to materialize the institutional infrastruc. ture to remined atmost the same in form and functioning as was in herited from the neglect and inertia Quality declined; only quality exploded 3
Education can achieve its ultimate purpose of making one an ideal human being only if it helps in fostering univeral and eternal values in the minds of all its people. And for this we must revolutionize our education its means and ends, its tryst with destiny, so that our rising generation rich in mental and creative intelligence, righteous in moral indignation against invironmental pollution, political, economic and other, and ready to die for human dignity and integrity.
What we need today is a large number of voluntary agencies wedded to gandhian concept of education to work, independently or with government agencies to change the educational pattern and to make it worthy of a culture that India is of course there is need for change in government policies and in many other things which will come if new avenues are openid up for the future.
Education is an integral part of the society and has to be co
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