write an "article" on the topic the defects of our education system.
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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.
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The Britishers designed the educational system as means of establishing British imperialism firmly in India. No effort was made by them to keep it in harmony with the social and cultural conditions in the country or to make it an instrument for inculcating intelligent citizenship among the people. No emphasis was laid on technical and vocational education. It did not fit the young-men for practical life who often found themselves incapable to take the struggle for existence.