THE ATTRIBUTES OF TRUE EDUCATION
ARVIND K.PANDEY
(Published in BUSINESS ECONOMICS ,AUGUST 15,2007)
According to Tagore the purpose of education is to train not only the mind but also the heart ." Universities should never be made into mechanical organizations for collecting and distributing knowledge" (Tagore). Unfortunately , the pressure to perform haunts the present-age childeren right from the day one at schoool .Both the parents and the teachers come to evaluate the strengths of child on the basis of marks attained in the examination .It's time to look beyond these petty standards with initiatives which make student the ideal component of a society .One is shocked to find that educational patterns have turned into medium to serve materialistic prospects of the globalised world instead of carving new routes for expansion of the human self .No wonder the modern student speaks more like a shrewd businessman rather than articulating like a refined intellectual in league with with concerns of the society !
