In plain words
Yet the unlettered who live in the villages live far more happily than the educated who live in the towns. In the towns there are universities, there are many colleges, there are many high schools. But riots such as happen nowhere else also break out right in the towns. All this is the evil effect of modern education! Go once to the villages and test it. “Who are you, sir? Where have you come from?” — so saying, the village people greet you with great respect. But those who live in the towns, even when their own parents and brothers come, do not ask after their welfare: “Well, how are you?” The close bond of kinship between one and another has itself withered away. The reason for this is modern education itself!
The end of education is character. The building of character, nothing less, is the supreme goal of education. But today's students are losing the wealth of character. That is precisely why respect and regard for elders have declined in them. In the hope of giving their children some great education, parents send them to the towns. The parents' intention is good indeed! But they cannot see that the children go to the towns and step onto the wrong path. As long as they are in the villages, children behave towards elders with great humility and obedience, with respect and regard. If the children happen to do something wrong, the parents are close at hand to scold them and set them right. But in the towns there is no one at all to punish children who take the wrong path. Those who encourage bad habits such as going to the cinema and smoking are many indeed. The root cause of this is modern education itself! By the time they reach the towns, children lose their humility and obedience entirely. Some children smoke cigarettes without a care even when their father is coming towards them. “It is my business. I smoke my cigarette. Why should I be afraid of anyone else?” say modern students.
Once, a foreigner and a modern student were travelling in the same compartment of a train. The student, smoking, was blowing the smoke at the foreigner with a ‘puff’.