/NOTE, /1 W fflW^s^ve ,tp succeed in ^e coui^ry^^I-W, /therefore, e^ential 3 ttetntw e^phas^^i)ouj4 n^wy/o^ely rennlain oo^fened to voc^Uonal t-raipiqi^r BPhe yeal .objectpv.^ r^ust ^e to free i^idefi:^ .froni. bourgeois prejmiices^nd- the ip\ allies, of caste, ^creed and religion; ^W^i&e these institutions te^db^® turn^ibe^^e^ off ,pjrio^lei^ i^^^ of finding out warys and me^ ftoitowg ^^pmia,c^p^ i^^r^^licj)rur^7'^g^ieplturalr and religio^^wlet^ J^he^jj^^ ^1p|ya4ar^[^ji^r^ js^cialj^im^l^c^nd egaUtar^o^sc^^ fr^g^pl^can^^e^^^^hie.ye^' i^brely by^ia-creas^g^Hxivuina^ ^%^erisrf jes^i^r^es^.^^^^j^iw^ ^dl^oo^ tOrthe^tiiepFYlandiide^cpfrw^^ltlessne^^ asceticism and ^Daridranaram^ ^apd peopit?, '^mtiuwis t^ncaoc4pt tbw ^ii^epe^a|? ^ho ^atp-ral outcome of misdeeds in their previous births and karmas, the destiny of the nation is not going to alter. The stagnant Hindu mentality fortified by the theories of popular religious beliefs is a cultural constraint on India's economic growth and socialistic modernization. Work-experience should, therefore, be provided to students in such a way as to transform their outmoded beliefs and values which are psychologically hindering the speedy development of our national economy. There is no dearth of men in the country who believe in reducing all work-experience only to manual labour. They expect students to assist farmers in the fields in sowing and harvesting crops. They want them to build roads, dig wells and clean cities. Thev are useful experiences but work-experience cannot be synonymous with mere physical work. The careless employment of students in such projects is sometimes a wastage of human and material resources. Students, in addition to these, can acquire useful work-experience in several other ways: they can help in eradicating illiteracy; work in hospitals as attendants and ward boys; learn first aid and nursing techniques; fire fighting and civil defence devices; traffic control; secretarial practices, stenography and salesmanship; they can be used in publicity campaigns for the propagation of new ideas essential for social reconstruction; their services can be enlisted for the management of agricultural and industrial museums, libraries and reading-rooms in villages and towns. These assignments are also valuable work-experiences which no educational system should try to ignore. If these experiences are gained by students, it is possible to inculcate among them a sense of social service and spirit of dedication for the public cause. Its ultimate result would be a better moral and social discipline which our citizens lack conspicuously. India is committed to establish a secular and socialist democracy. The main objective behind work-experience should be the preparation of a citizen who is mentally, morally and vocationally equipped to take his place in such a society rather than the training of a narrow specialist who knows nothing except his own occupation. The members of a socialist democratic society need a wider perspective, a new vision, a new sense of commitment towards their ideals that sets them apart from any other type of society. They should be men of conviction as well as of action. Secula"