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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 author considers specialization as :

In August 2017, RBI announced to transfer approximately how much amount for the Financial Year 2016-17 as a dividend to the Government?

If a current of 1.5 A is maintained in a resistor of 10 ohm, then the energy dissipated in the resistor in 1 minute will be 

The sensation of sound persists in the human brain for about:

What is the name of the castle that was built in honour of world renowned composer Richard Wagner?

'Akash' developed by DRDO is

For each perfectly competitive firm in the long run

____________ is the relationship between the variable input and output, keeping all other inputs are held constant.