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Shades Of Liberal Education and Liberal Education Now

EDUCATION is not a mere source of information. It is more than attaining a degree in lieu. Education has evolved since ages, say the main lower palaeolithic culture in Europe. The invention of “acheulian axes” proves that the people of early stone age in Europe had knowledge about weapons and engineering of stone weapons, and that they earned a living through it. Then came the “Mousterian period” when people used their knowledge about ‘flints’ to earn a living. Though these ancient human beings didn’t possess a degree, but their knowledge about various things in their surroundings not only earned them a living, rather it helped their further generations to evolve. Not only the Europeans, but we should laud the way education has evolved in India. Let’s not forget ‘zero’ was officially discovered by an Indian astronomer ‘Aryabhatta’, and that he certainly counted the number of days in a year to be 365, which eventually led to Albert Einstein saying, “We owe a lot to the Indian...