Passage 4

In English

Education does not mean mere knowledge of books and acquaintance with them. If we concentrate on book knowledge at the cost of practical application, we will be spoiling the name of education itself. In olden times, only those who secured hundred per cent marks were allowed to pass a test, but now, thirty-five out of hundred will enable a person to get through an examination. That means, a student is allowed to commit 65 mistakes out of hundred. If a student is allowed to make 65 per cent mistakes when he has full time and energy at his disposal there is no reason why a grown up not be given the margin of committing 100 per cent mistakes. It is therefore the duty of each and every student to attain hundred per cent perfection in his knowledge. If he cannot do this as a student in spite of his advantages of age and energy, he will not be able to do Justice to his work when he takes up a job and assumes false notions of prestige and dignity.