| UP Board Chapter 6 Class 12 Explanation |
| Board | UP Board |
| Text book | NCERT |
| Class | 12th |
| Subject | English |
| Chapter | Chapter 6 |
| Chapter name | WOMEN’S EDUCATION |
| Chapter Number | Number 3 Explanation |
| Category | English PROSE Class 12th |
| UP Board Syllabus Chapter 6 Class 12th English (Prose) |
Q. Explain with reference to the context of the following passages :
- You are living in an age when there are great opportunities for women in social work, public life and administration Society requires women of disciplined
minds and restrained manners. Whatever line of work you undertake, you should bring to it an honest disciplined mind. You will then succeed and have the joy of
your work.
Reference
Reference: These lines have been taken from the lesson ‘Women’s Education’ written by Dr. S. Radhakrishnan.
Context
Context: This lesson is an abstract from the essay ‘True Knowledge’. The author says in this lesson what kind of education is required for women in India.
Explanation
Explanation: The author says that there are many opportunities for women of India at present. They can have a great chance in social work. They can work in
public life. It means they can participate politics. They can find good positions in administration. Our society has the need of such women as possess disciplined
minds and manners. According to the author if we want to succeed and enjoy our work, it is necessary that work should be done honestly and accordingly.
- Therefore, it is essential that the education which you acquire in these institutions should give you not merely learning and skill but endow you with a definite purpose in life: What that purpose is you have to define for yourselves.
Reference
Reference: These lines have been taken from the lesson ‘Women’s Education’ written by Dr. S. Radhakrishnan.
Context
Context: In these lines Dr. S. Radhakrishnan highlights the importance of education and also of a definite purpose in life.
Explanation
Explanation: Addressing the women, the author says that the education the girls are achieving in the modern schools give them knowledge and practical experience but it is not enough. They must find out a definite purpose of their Individual life and get ready for it through their formal education.
- You must try, therefore, to find out what is required of you in this generation A purpose which held good centuries ago may not hold good today in view of the
a pidly changing conditions of our country and of the world. So the purpose which
you adopt in your life must be adapted to the relevant needs of the present generation.
Reference
Reference: These lines have been taken from the lesson ‘Women’s Education written by Dr. S. Radhakrishnan.
Context
Context: The writer says that education gives us the ability to judge and decide what is right. We can neglect the things which are wrong and unjust.
Explanation
Explanation: We can get knowledge and ability by education Education gives us the ability to recognize what is right and wrong in life. Educated women should
try to find out what they should do for the good and progress of the people of their time. Circumstances and needs change with time. So we should also change the
way of our lives according to time. Perhaps a purpose in life was considered good and necessary centuries ago. But the conditions have changed in our country and
in the world. The result is that the old purpose is not good and suitable today. Therefore, a new set up should be decided to prepare in the society for our aims
and purposes accordingly.
- Compassion, daya, is the quality which is more characteristic of women than of men. I read recently a book which speaks about the decline of womanhood,
and says that this is so because there is a decline in compassion. In other words, the natural quality of woman is compassion. If you do not have compassion, you
are not human. It is therefore, essential for every human being to develop the quality of considerateness, kindness and compassion. Without these qualites we
are only human animals, ‘nara pashu,’ not more than that.
Reference
Reference: These lines have been taken from the lesson ‘Women’s Education’ written by Dr. S. Radhakrishnan.
Context
Context: In these lines the writer tells us about the great necessity and importance of mercy, feelings for the sufferings of others and readiness to help
them.
Explanation
Explanation : Men have mercy, but mercy is the special quality of the character of women. The writer says that in previous times, as it was told, women were not so
habituate of the qualities. The writer read a book in which it was written that the character of women degenerated because the feeling of pity for others grew less in
them. The reality is that pity is that quality which is inborn in women. They have it by nature. A person without pity is like an animal and not a man. Therefore, every man and woman should have the quality of pity and sympathy for others.
- When you talk about education, you have several aims in view : give the people, those who are taught, knowledge of the world in which they live-science,
history and geography enable you to get that knowledge; you also train the people to acquire some technical skill by which they can earn a livelihood
Reference
Reference: These lines have been taken from the lesson ‘Women’s Education written by Dr. S. Radhakrishnan.
Context
Context: Here the writer suggests the women to study certain useful subiects for general education and for their livelihood.
Explanation
Explanation: Several aims can be raised with the help of education. The author suggests that the students should be taught about the world through the subiects of science, history and geography. Thus the people will know about the world, Resides general education, the author recommends that the people should be given technical knowledge. Technical skill will be useful to the people in earning
their livelihood. In this way the writer frames a syllabus for an education suitable to the needs of the modern age.
- We have heard that the chief purpose of education is not merely the acquiring of skill or information but the initiation into a higher life, initiation into a world
which transcends the world of Space and Time, though the latter informs and animates the former. That has been the main purpose of education.
Reference
Reference: These lines have been taken from the lesson ‘Women’s Education written by Dr. S. Radhakrishnan.
Context
Context: According to the writer the chief aim of education may be to gain knowledge and skill but it is not all. The real purpose of education is initiation into
a world which transcends the world of Space and Time.
Explanation
Explanation : The writer says that education gives us knowledge. We also get special ability of doing certain things. These are the good fruits of education. The
main purpose of education is something much better. We should be given a clear idea of a higher life. Our world is limited by Space and Time. Education should bring to us the knowledge of that world which rises above these two things that limit our world. The latter is more important. It carries to light the former and puts life into it. The knowledge of all these things is the chief purpose of education.
- After Independence, through the exertions of Mahatma Gandhi, a revolution has been effected in our country, and women are coming into their own.
Reference
Reference: These lines have been taken from the lesson ‘Women’s Education written by Dr. S. Radhakrishnan.
Context
Context: These lines tell us about Mahatma Gandhi’s contribution to the progress of women in India,
Explanation
Explanation: The author says that India became independent in 1947. After it Mahatma Gandhi began a movement in India. The purpose of the movement waspac to arouse an awakening among the women of India. Its aim was to inspire the Indian women to progress at a rapid pace
| UP Board Syllabus Chapter 6 Class 12th English (Prose) |