"Knowledge the Aim "
The education system of India has undergone various changes right from the thought process of our eminent leaders and their vision of modern India, which aimed at having India at par in science and technology with the modern world. We can still see the reflections of those roots in the economic development of the nation and prominently in the education system of India. The ancient universities were epitomes of knowledge and cultural heritage which ran on the concept of Dharma. The Gurukul system was followed where students lived as Shishyas with the gurus. To give knowledge was considered very sacred and divine, while retaining all our core values. Later in the 20 th century with modernization and western cultural impact all these values have lost their core and there is no soul left in education. These are because the humanities have been side lined and have lost their former relevance. John Dewey (The father of modern education in the United States, suggests , “Educati...