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Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

Implanting standards, right values, the science of good and evil are an essential part of education. Many forces thwart this to work, but two of the most serious hindrances to it are examinations and specialization. The examination system is both an opiate and a poison. It is an opiate because it lulls Man into believing that all is well when most is ill. It is a poison because it paralyses or at least slows down the natural activities of the healthy mind. Man finds himself a creature of unknown capacities in an unknown world, wants to learn what the world is like, what he should be and do in it. To help him in answering these questions is the one and only purpose of education. However, tests of progress are useful and necessary. Examinations are harmless when the examinee is indifferent to their result, but as soon as they matter, they begin to distort his attitude to education and to conceal its purpose. For disinterestedness is the essence of all good education and liberal education is impossible without it.

The purpose of education is

As of February 2018, which Indian Paediatrician has been appointed as the Deputy Director General (Programmes) in the World Health Organisation (WHO)?

Which of the following is used to detect current in a circuit?

IRDAI has given its approval to LIC for the stake purchase, that will help get a capital support of Rs 10,000- 13,000 crore in which of the following state-owned banks?

‘Swavalamban Sashakt – Mega Campaign’ has been launched by Confederation of Women Entrepreneurs of India (COWE) and ………….?

According to the Constitution, the ratio between the length and breadth of the national tricolor should be

By how many atomic mass units do subsequent members of homologous series differ?

Which of the following states does not share a border with Myanmar?