There are two basic purposes behind education.

The first is to free people from ignorance,

superstition, bad habits, and many wrong ideas. Secondly, to provide the citizens of a country with
some skill or special kind of knowledge that would enable them to earn a decent living.

In a highly populated country like India education is a must for both the purposes mentioned. First,
there must be a hundred per cent literacy if the so-called democracy that the constitution
guarantees for its citizens is to have any true meaning. Only educated citizens can utilize democratic
rights usefully. But as the population of this country rises by leaps and bounds, mere knowledge for
its own sake will not suffice.

People, educated people, must learn to produce things that are in daily demand. We need more
technicians, more carpenters, more well-informed farmers and cultivators, and more skilled workers
of different categories who can increase the goods and services they demand which are constantly
rising. There should be close coordination between producers of necessary goods and educational
planners. Turning out graduates from colleges and universities would not help things because such
ordinary graduates are not employable in industries