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Education, which does not teach us to discriminate between good or bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer said Mahatma Gandhi. The purpose of literacy and education is not only to make our children literate and merely develop individual skills but to make them appropriate human beings. Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation, strongly believed that education means drawing out the best of the body, mind, and spirit in man. He believed in learning by
doing and was of the opinion that the knowledge through correlation of craft-centred education with academic subjects would encourage self-experience of the students. The immediate aim of literacy and education should be to make it a joyous experience for all students and teachers where creativity should be the ultimate objective.
In our country, the population explosion is a social problem which has become an economic problem as well. Illiteracy is one of the major cause of this problem, because in a subsistence-oriented agricultural economy, for poor parents, the economic costs of children are low. The economic benefits of children are high and having many children makes economic sense. In a lower family income level, having an additional child. contributes to the family's earnings. They are deprived of nutritious food and other amenities of life; only education can change the attitude of a person towards family, marriage and the number of children he should have. Because of it is seen that most educated people delay their marriages and prefer to have small families.The spread of education and the expansion of family planning programmes can control the rapidly growing population.
Answer the following questions:
a. What is the main purpose of literacy and education?
b.What according to Mahatma Gandhi was real education?
c. How has illiteracy become one of the major causes of population explosion?
d. How can education bring about a change in the attitude of poor people?
Vocabulary
i. Identify the word which means the same as 'assimilate'.
a. relate
b. devise
c. hinder
d. incorporate
ii. Identify the word which means the same as 'ultimate'.
a. eventual
b. rare
c. conceal
d. initial
iii. The noun form of ‘contribute' is ............
a. contributing
b. contributory
c.contribution
d. none of these
iv. The spread of education and expansion of family planning programmes can control the rapidly growing population. In this sentence, the word 'spread' is
a. noun
b. verb
c. adjective
d. adverb
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Answer:
iv.a is the correct answer
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