India is the biggest democracy in the world and she has the second biggest population in the world also, next to China only. But the UNO’s statistics reveal two very dismal points. Before the 21st century India is going to be the biggest populous country of the world and, long before that, India is going to turn over the biggest illiterate population.
But at the juncture even, India cannot be a nation with no education. The idea of a nation with no education denies our wildest conception today. It cannot be simply imagined. Today’s technology has, so to say, destroyed distance. The updated news-mediums dot the barriers and borders of the sovereign countries. Books and literatures of any country find inlets into other countries hoodwinking restrictions and censorship of all sorts. Inter-exchange of thoughts and cultures take place in spite of hydra-beaded differences in norms and forms of nationalism. These are the days of internationalism, and as such, a community, however backward, and a community however advanced, has to depend on other on many issues. People have thus come to realize, at the instance of others, the role of education. Only education can build up a nation.
Great educators throughout the world have tried their best during their life-time to propagate education amongst their people. They formed or helped to form the conceptions of values, of ethics, of aesthetics, of culture and of the need of education. Many of these great heroes have scarified their lives for the eradication of illiteracy or fallacious education. But for them we have realized that true education and only true education, can bring about human emancipation.
But at the juncture even, India cannot be a nation with no education. The idea of a nation with no education denies our wildest conception today. It cannot be simply imagined. Today’s technology has, so to say, destroyed distance. The updated news-mediums dot the barriers and borders of the sovereign countries. Books and literatures of any country find inlets into other countries hoodwinking restrictions and censorship of all sorts. Inter-exchange of thoughts and cultures take place in spite of hydra-beaded differences in norms and forms of nationalism. These are the days of internationalism, and as such, a community, however backward, and a community however advanced, has to depend on other on many issues. People have thus come to realize, at the instance of others, the role of education. Only education can build up a nation.
Great educators throughout the world have tried their best during their life-time to propagate education amongst their people. They formed or helped to form the conceptions of values, of ethics, of aesthetics, of culture and of the need of education. Many of these great heroes have scarified their lives for the eradication of illiteracy or fallacious education. But for them we have realized that true education and only true education, can bring about human emancipation.
