^s====g?=:TTTiillli il rmmtinn is widely different from ordinary academic education.The ordinary or liberal education aims at training the mind and improving the intellect.On the contrary the aim of technical education is to teach the students a particular kind of trade or handicraft and giving them training in a special field of industry as the practicalapplication of general principles and methods of scientific studies to the teaching of somespecial kind of trade, handicraft, skill or profession. A literary education may develop themind, polish the emotion and nourish the artistic side of man but it does not suit to eachand every man alike. Technical education has a utilitarian motive behind it as its purposeis to make us develop our manual capacity and mechanical skill and thus not only earnour livelihood but also become useful member of the society from the economics point of view.The importance of technical education is much more obvious in our country. As is knownto all of us, more than seventy percent of our population depends upon agriculture andanother ten percent on industries. Therefore, it will be sheer injustice to make educationmerely liberal and thus deprive our youths from learning the skill and art of manual professions. In the modern era of scientific and industrial advancement we cannot keep pac365The Study of Educationwith other countries of the world in the race towards progress and prosperity unless our educationists give due attention to introduce technical education in our school anduniversities. In this way they can correct the whole system of education which is whollysolely liberal and lop-sided. In the words of an eminent American scholar, "There are twoobvious kinds of education, one teaches us how to live and the other how to make living".This is a sorry affair of state that in our country we are taught much "how to live" beforewe know how to make a living. We are made to know about the plays of eminentdramatists the poems of renowned poets or the chronology of historical events but weknow little how to handle a machine, how to drive an engine or how to operate a plant ina factory. This is why our present day student faces much trouble when he leaves theschool or college. He runs from pillar to post and from post to pillar in order to searchsuitable job for himself. How much degrees or diplomas he may possess but everywherehe is responded with the words "No vacancy".The need of the hour is to train our boys and girls in some special field of industry, trade,handicraft or other manual profession so that the end of their education career may not bring them despair and despondency but enable them to occupy a suitable employmentfor themselves. We live in a scientific, industrial age and technical education is anecessity of our times. Without developing the industrial sector the whole system wouldcome to a standstill. It is the foremost duty 'of every country to see that a sufficientnumber of its people attain the necessary technical training to cope with the essentialwork of the factories. A purely literary education should be imparted to a certain class of population who have a natural inclination towards it. But in an era of science andtechnology the majority of people should be given technical education. Doing manual
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