INDIAN HOME RULE
an education. Carried away by the flood of western thought, we came to the conclusion, without weighing pros and cons, that we should give this kind of education to the people.
Now let us take higher education. I have learned Geography, Astronomy, Algebra, Geometry, etc. What of that? In what way have I benefitted myself or those around me? Why have I learned these things? Professor Huxley has thus defined education :-"That man I think has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will and does with ease and pleasure all the work that as a mechanism it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine with all its parts of equal strength and in smooth working order...... whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the fundamental truths of nature...... whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience....... who has learnt to hate all vileness and to respect others as himself. Such an one and no other, I conceive, has had a liberal education, for
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