CLAT PARA

 Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, 

undigested, all your life. We must have life-building, man-making, character-making 

assimilation of ideas…. If education were identical with information, the libraries are 

the sages in the world and encyclopaedias are the rishis. Getting by heart the thoughts 

of others in a foreign language and stuffing your brain with them and taking some 

University degree, you consider yourself educated. Is this education? What is the goal 

of your education? Open your eyes and see what a piteous cry for food is rising in the 

land of Bharata, proverbial for its food. Will your education fulfill this want? 

We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, 

the intellect is expanded and by which one can stand on one’s own feet. What we need 

to study independent of foreign control, different branches of the knowledge that is our 

own, and with it the English language and Western science; we need technical education 

and all else that will develop industries so that men instead of seeking for service may 

earn enough to provide for themselves and save against a rainy day. The end of all 

education, all training, should be man-making. The end and aim of all training are to 

make the man grow. The training by which the current expression of will are brought 

under control and become fruitful, is called education. What our country now wants 

are muscles of iron and nerves of steel, gigantic wills, which nothing can resist, which 

can penetrate into the mysteries and secrets of the universe and will accomplish their 

purpose in any fashion, even if it meant going down to the bottom of the ocean, meeting 

death face to face.

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UG

There is only one method of attaining knowledge. It is by concentration. The very essence 

of education is concentration of mind. From the lowest to the highest man, all have to 

use the same method to attain knowledge. The chemist who works in the laboratory 

concentrates on elements to analyze them. Knowledge is acquired by concentration.

[Extracted with edits from “Education” by Swami Vivekananda]

7. According to the author, we need to study:

(A) English Language

(B) Technical Education

(C) Western Science

(D) All of the above

8. According to the author, which among the following is key to attain knowledge?

(A) University Degrees 

(B) Library

(C) Concentration of mind

(D) Hard work and sports training

9. Which of the following words is related to the word “assimilation”?

(A) Integration

(B) Adjustment

(C) Acclimatization

(D) All of the above

10. Education, as described by the author means: 

(A) Information

(B) Library

(C) Degrees

(D) None of the above

11. As per the author, the aim of education should be:

 (A) to help a person build his/her character 

(B) to help a person earn his/her livelihood 

(C) to help a person develop his/her intellect

 (D) All of the above

12. According to the author the country wants:

(A) massive will power

(B) spirit of philanthropy

(C) iron and steel industries

(D) All of the above

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UG

III. Punctually at midday, he opened his bag and spread out his professional equipment, 

which consisted of a dozen cowrie shells, a square piece of cloth with obscure mystic 

charts on it, a notebook, and a bundle of palmyra writing. His forehead was dazzling 

with sacred ash and vermilion, and his eyes sparkled with a sharp, abnormal gleam 

which was really an outcome of a continual searching look for customers, but which 

his simple clients took to be a prophetic light and fe