Ten thousand jobs requiring manual labor in agriculture, industry and transport

The complaint is not peculiar to education in India.

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Even in the West it is now being asked whether the universal provision of liberal education can be accomplished without aiding a widespread desire among educated to avoid the manual work. It is not so much that the educated look down upon manual labor. It is rather the training that they have received that unfits for work. They require the labor of the round armchair jobs in offices and in business houses or knock at the gates of the professions. But these avenues can only absorb a small fraction of the those whom we educate and hence arises the problem of unemployment among the educated. Not that there is not enough work on which they could be employed, but they are not trained for work which exists and which is available.

The jobs that are available to them must be socially useful.

There are a ten thousand jobs requiring manual labor in agriculture, industry and transport. These jobs were being done by the uneducated until a generation or two ago. But now the same jobs will have to be done with greater skill demanded of the time, by the educated. In these days of mass education the policy will have to be more and moreadjustment of the manpower. Whatever be the kind of of manpower we have, they have to be carefully planned.The jobs that are available to them must be socially useful. There is not, of course, one single solution to these problems. Necessary step in the adjustment of education to social change is the building up of a new outlook on manual labor and social service and a readiness for it among the educated.

The democracy is really something worth having.

In this world of practical realities, a purely bookish education can have no justification. The training of the hand must proceed in close relation with the training of the mind. This basic fact of education through productive work which really means education for life through life should never be forgotten by our readers. The democracy is really something worth having. The state and the society must give the same chances for development to the sons of the poor laborer and the peasant as to those of the capitalist and the prince.