Question

. Read the passage and answer the questions that follow. I. Seeds for independent thinking are already there in you For experiencing the knowledge, joy and beauty of life, a young mind is required. The body is bound to become old, but not the mind; mind can always remain young, and only such a mind can know the mysteries of life and death. Only such a mind is a religious mind. But the present education makes the mind old. It does not awaken the mind but fills it, and so it becomes old. By being filled with all sorts of thoughts, the mind becomes old, burdened and tired. Feeding thoughts means feeding the memory. It does not spark thinking or intelligence. Memory is not intelligence. Memory is mechanical. Intelligence is consciousness. II. Thoughts are not to be given to you but to be awakened in you. Where thinking is awakened, the mind is always young. Where the mind is young, life is a constant challenge. There the doors of consciousness are, and the fresh morning breeze comes in, the light of the rising sun comes in. When a person becomes imprisoned by the thoughts and words of others, his own ability to fly in the sky of truth is destroyed. III. There is no other power that makes one alive than the power of original thinking. And nothing makes one more lifeless and rigid than just learning others’ thoughts. Accumulation of others’ thoughts brings idiocy. By accumulation of thoughts, original thinking and intelligence are not born. Too much emphasis on mechanical memory is fatal in the birth of thinking and intelligence. Enough opportunities for thinking and use of intelligence should be made available if they are to grow. IV. Doubt, instead of belief, is to be taught if thinking and intelligence are to grow. Belief and trust bind you, whereas doubt liberates. But by doubt I do not mean distrust. Distrust is only the negative form of trust or belief. Neither trust nor distrust but doubt is required. And where there is no liberating intensity of doubt, there is neither any search for the truth nor its attainment. The intensity of doubt becomes the search. Doubt is thirst, doubt is longing. It is in the fire of doubt that the life force is stirred and thinking is born. The pain of doubt is the birth- pain of thinking. One who escapes that pain is deprived of the birth of thinking.The politician has never liked that people should have any ability to think, because where there is thinking there are seeds of rebellion. It cannot be made a blind follower. Education should provide such an understanding that the mind does not become a slave to conditionings and also so that independent thinking ability can arise. If proper attention is given, this can definitely be done. Seeds for independent thinking are already there in every person. In the proper climate, these seeds can sprout. 2. Now answer these questions. a. How does education affect the mind? b. What does the writer say about doubt? Why does he stress on doubts? c. Why is accumulation of thought negated? d. What according to the writer should education strive for? 3. Vocabulary a. Find a word which is same as loaded(para I). b. Find a word which is the opposite of prevent. (para IV) c. Write the adjectival form of intelligence. d. Write the verb form of attentive. e. Write the noun form of required.

Answer 1

Answer:

1. Education affects the mind by not awakening the mind and filling it with unusual things due to mind becomes old , burdened and tired.
2. Narrator said about doubt is that doubt Liberates us and doubt is thirst and longing.
3. He stress on doubts Because the pain of doubt is the birth pain of thinking.
4. Accumulation of thought is negated because Too much emphasis on mechanical memory is fatal in the birth of thinking and intelligence
5. According to the writer education should strive for freedom.
6. SAME AS LOADED IS

Answer 2

1. Education affects the mind by not awakening the mind and filling it with unusual things due to mind becomes old , burdened and tired.

2. Narrator said about doubt is that doubt Liberates us and doubt is thirst and longing.

3. He stress on doubts Because the pain of doubt is the birth pain of thinking.

4. Accumulation of thought is negated because Too much emphasis on mechanical memory is fatal in the birth of thinking and intelligence.

5. According to the writer education should strive for freedom.