There are many educationists who have propounded different aims of education – education in terms of efficiency, acquisition of knowledge, preparation for life etc. But their are very few whose views on education are comprehensive and many-sided.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR N.L. Gupta
N.L. Gupta (b. 1940) is the first scholar to obtain a Ph.D. from two different faculties of Nagpur University. He has a series of Postgraduate degrees and many firsts at his credit. He is the first candidate to submit a thesis for D.Litt. in R.S. University, Raipur. Recently, he has been awarded by Maharashtra Hindi Granth Academy for the best work on literary criticism styled as “Nav-Manavatavadi Chintan†(Neohumanistic thought). Dr. Gupta is a prolific writer. Besides many research papers, he has 46 books in both Hindi and English to his credit. Dr. Gupta’s writings have a very broad spectrum of themes which include literature, History, Culture, Education, Sociology, Philosophy, Theology and so on. He is considered to be the authority on ‘Value Education’ on which he has contributed as many as six books with different angles. Latest in the series was Education and Values in the Mahabharata, Mulya Parak Shiksha of about 400 pages published from Ajmer, has been profusely quoted by the scholars. He retired as Assistant Commissioner, Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh and settled at Nagpur.
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