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There was a time, when India was noted all over the world as a glorious centre of education and culture, where students from all parts of the globe used to pour in. The educational and cultural centers of Nalanda, Taxila and Prayag attracted students from places, as far as Egypt, Greece, China, Ceylon and Indonesia.

It was an ideal system of education, which apart from disseminating sweetness and light, infused into the mind of the pupils and spiritual urge for coming in contact with the kingdom of the Absolute. But now when we look at the present state of affairs in our country, the change shocks us deeply. It is asserted with great regret by persons of almost every shade of opinion that our educational system has not undergone any change with the changes brought about by political independence.

The crowning defect of our existing educational system that requires the immediate and earnest consideration is its excessive passive and mechanical character. The student plays no active role in the attainment of knowledge. His entire education is passive and mechanical. Things are loaded on his min which he cannot digest; he only crams and therefore they never become his own. Our educational system in the words of Dr. Annie Basant, is just “Filling boys head with a lot of disjointed facts poured into the heads as into a basket; to be emptied out again in the examination room, and empty basket carried out again into the world.” This is the reason why a student who succeeds so well in his college examination fails miserable in the examination of life.
The existing system of our education is predominantly academic and theoretical. It is theoretical as a rule and piratical by chance. The student is taught lessons by books, but not lessons from life. In other words, he is provided with knowledge, but not with wisdom. He is obliged to know the history of Greece of 200 years ago, but he knows nothing of what is happening in our own country today. He knows more about the English country Council that about the municipality of his own town.

Now we come to the questions of moral and cultural development of our students. What do our universities do for their character-building? We have to admit sadly that today there functions finishes with imparting the students bits of information. They don’t include in them a love of virtue and righteousness, a sense of self-respect and personal dignity.

In the past a student was taught to be God-fearing, to love and practice the rules of religion, to obey his parents and respect his teachers. But today the false glamour of western civilization has lead out students astray and they have forgotten the noble ideals and traditions of past cultures. Our schools and colleges still run on these lines that were laid down by Macaulay. Their course of study and text books does not breathe the air of freedom and national independence. They have no love for learning for its own sake and hence no sense of respect for teacher. The bond between the teachers and the taught is unnatural, purely economic and official. The teacher is nothings more than a paid servant of the college or the university. The problem of growing indiscipline among the student is something which reflects seriously on our education al institutions.