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"We pass examinations, and shrivel up into clerks, lawyers and
police inspectors, and we die young .... Once upon a time we were in
possession of such a thing as our mind in India. It was living. It
thought, it felt, it expressed itself. But it has been thrust aside,
and we are made to tread the mill of passing examinations, not for
learning anything, but for notifying that we are qualified for
employment under organizations conducted in English. Our educated
community is not a cultured community, but a community of qualified
candidates."
- Rabindranath Tagore, Indian scholar, poet, and gentleman