AG Ahmad

  Essay No 26 Technical Education        The true order of learning should be the first, what is necessary, the second, what is useful and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like the beginning to build at the top of past, literary education was common. The aim of this education was to give training to a student on Philosophy, History, Grammar and Literature. Its aim was to build the personality of the student. As Mahatma Gandhi has wisely said, “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”         But when a student left the school or college, he was fit for nothing except a scholarly discussion. When the English came to India, they gave us a system which made us good clerk but taught us no art. Technical education gives us training to earn money for needs. Such education is only possible in an industrial country. As we can say that, Literary education ...