EDUCATION

Quotes on Education

1.The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is

sweet. - Aristotle
2.Education is the ability to meet life’s situation.
3.Education is not the amount of information that
is put into your brain and remains there,
undigested, all your life. We must have life-
building, man- making, character-building,
assimilating fine ideas and making them your
life and character.- Swami Vivekanand
4.Education is the chief defense of a nation.
– Burke
5.Each time we read , a seed is sown for the
future.- Jules Renard
6.Educational innovations have to be invented,
planned, initiated and implemented in a way
that will make education more meaningful.
-Education is the distinctive identity of every society
or nation. It is the most important task for human
resource development of any country.
- Illiteracy - the biggest hindrance in the way of our
country’s progress.
- Illiteracy- the root cause of all evils.
- It is ironical that on one hand we burden the
students with unnecessary books; on the other hand
the number of illiterates is increasing.
Reasons of illiteracy:
- Extreme poverty
- Lack of motivation
-ignorance and backwardness
-no access to school and books
-unaware of importance of education
-child labour
How to promote literacy:
 - moral duty to work for the upliftment of
deprived sections of society.

- Teach India Campaign

- Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan (Mass Literacy
programme)
- Adult Education Programme

Current demand of the education system:

-The aims of education, on pragmatic grounds,
could be summed up as follows:
 To think logically and develop a spirit of
inquisitive thinking.
 To develop mental abilities for survival and for
earning a livelihood.
 To work in a cooperative but highly competitive
environment dominated by rapidly growing and
changing technologies.
 Technology oriented and vocation rich-
dominated system
 The tender and young minds should not be
chained to tough syllabi and stress of
examinations.
 Let the students come out of the academic shells.
 They should be groomed for life and not for
degrees.
 Schools are the nurseries of our civilization. If
the nurseries are healthy and morally upright,
the final crops would be assets to the society and
for the nation.
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- The need of the hour is that education should
shift from passive absorption to action oriented
and participative learning, rigid daily teaching
sessions to flexible schedules, theoretical sweet
nothings to technical and practical knowledge
base.
- Keeping in mind the pace of growth of human
society, the word ‘vocation’ should be added to
the existing sets of knowledge streams.
- The education system should have less of three
R’s-reading, writing and arithmetic and more of
 three Graces-grace of speech, grace of
knowledge and grace of manner.
- To have a value based education system where
knowledge is imparted, faculties are sharpened
and character is moulded.

Brain Drain
-The world might have become a global village now,
but the ghost of brain drain still continue to haunt
India as talented young students continue to go
overseas every year for education, as well as
employment opportunities.
- After completing their education in India,
people often leave for foreign countries in search
of better working environment and pay package on
account of unemployment. This concept of taking
education in a country but earning for another is
known as brain drain.
 - Main Concern- serious outflow of our talented
manpower to western co untries for more
lucrative opportunities.
- Our country spends millions on the education
and training of the professionals- doctors,
engineers, IIT graduates and it is seen that one
out of every three of these settles in USA.

. - According to a UNO report, every year thousands

of experts are migrating from backward countries to
advanced countries like USA, UK, Canada, Germany etc.

- US is the biggest gainer from the loss of India due to

brain drain.

- Acc. To WHO, India is the largest donor of

medical manpower in the world.
Reasons:
- Unemployment
- The opportunities inside the country suddenly seem
small and worthless in front of the starry image of
the west.
- More than anything else, better lifestyle and a
developed country name to flaunt, has led people
into migrating their working areas from their native
place to a western country.
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Solution:

- The youth needs to understand that India is no

less than other countries.
- Progress in all spheres; science and technology,
Education, MNC’s and BPO’s which employ
thousands of youth.
- There is no doubt that India is having vast
natural and man power resources. If both these
resources are put to the maximum utilization
astounding advancement can be achieved in all
fields. These technical and other talented reasons
that we lose every year, can greatly help in the
development of our natural resources.
- The government must take speedy steps to lure
back home these talented sons of India who are
- living abroad. These experts can surely help in
making India a great power in the world.
- The country has already achieved the nuclear
status as well as become a space power. There
are enough opportunities for all the Indian
scientists and engineers settled abroad, if they
come back to India.
- They should play an important role in future
progress of our country and share the honour of
participating in this sacred task.
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