Technical Education

                       

                      Technical education is the practical education of the general principles and methods of scientific studies to the teaching some trade, profession or handicraft. The importance of such education in a country like ours is quite obvious. In our country, more than 80 percent of our population is related to agriculture, and another 10 percent is industrial. Given the modern age of industrial and scientific advancement, it is admitted on all hands that a country cannot keep pace with other countries in the march of progress unless it is eminent educators who direct the best possible attention to the introduction and patronization of technical education in its schools, colleges, and universities. An American thinker said, "There are two obvious kinds of education. One should teach how to live and other how to make a living". Unfortunately, in our country, we are taught how to live before we know how to make a living. Our educational system is based only on literature. That is why a present day student has to face much of stress and despair when he is left outside the Collage walls to make his head way in the practical world. He runs from pillar to post in search of a job with role of certificates and diplomas under the arm, but where find the same depressing reply "No Vacancy". It is then that he realizes how fruitless his act of diggerent poets and writers was to get through his examination. On such occasions, his despair is so deep that he either commits suicide or lives a wretched life full of want and care.

               It has rightly been said that there are only three ways of earning one's livelihood: working, begging, and stealing. If one fails to earn by the first method, that is, by working, it is natural that one should earn either by begging or stealing. Therefore, a person who has failed to find a job must turn out to be either an egger or a stealer. The question which crops before us is who is responsible for this production of beggars, robbers and thieves and certainly the answer is the Government that is not planning for technical education in Shools, Colleges and Universities. And if we do not want our education in institutions to produce a generation of beggars, thieves, and robbers but of honest and upright gentlemen who earn their living by the young generation of ours in some special branch of industry mechanism, handicraft, trade and profession. So, at the end of their educational career, they are in a position to find employment easily, or they are failing to find employment easily or failing to start their own private work or business.

                      There are lots of benefits that technical education can provide. In the first place, it solves the problem of unemployment by supplying the industries with a large number of trained workers in every department. Secondly it will pay for the education of our children and make them studious and self supporting. Our country is poor. We don't have adequate means to finance our education per the existing style, nor are millions of parents able to pay the fees that are, at present, imposed on their wards. Education, to be universal, must be free, and the students should be made to pay their fees in labor, partly or wholly, for the education they received. Technical education and mutual work must be introduced in the schools, Colleges, and Universities, and students are required to pay their fees in the form of labor rather than cash. Another practical advantage of technical education is that when we have our own technicians, a lot of money would be saved, which at present goes to the pocket of foreign technicians. In the absence of trained men in the country, we are compelled to import foreign technicians.

                    The habit of dining manual work will make our students healthy, strong, and agile. It will also cultivate in them the virtues of patience, faith, and industry. Above all, they will realize the dignity of labor and practically learn that  Work is worship. In this country, manual work is looked down upon with contempt by the so-called educated class of people. But with the encouragement of technical education, this feeling of superiority complex will gradually disappear as it has disappeared in many countries.

                   However, in our country, there is already an excess of literary education, and that has only produced clerks and such other officials. remedy to this excess is the introduction of technical education in Schools and Colleges. present education system is a legacy of British rule. It was a deliberate policy of the British to deprive the subcontinent of the fruits of technical education and impart literary education to the children of the subcontinent to get trained clerks to work in their offices and nothing more. But now we are free people; we have freed ourselves from the yoke of foreign domination. We have freed ourselves from the yoke of foreign domination.  We must re-orient and remodel the system of our education and make it more consistent with our present needs, for it is on education that the future destiny of our country depends.