EDUMANTRA

INDUSTRY (Hotel Management, 1996) The strength of the electronics industry in Japan is the Japanese ability to organize production and marketing rather than their achievements in original research. The British are generally recognized as a far more inventive collection of individuals, but never seem able to exploit what they invent. There are many examples, from the TSR Z… Read More »

NEWSPAPERS Newspapers sell because of news and editorial coverage but it gets more revenue from advertisements. News costs money, while advertisements fetch money. The economics of modern newspapers is such that it cannot run by just selling news; it has to depend on advertisements. The economics of newspaper publishing requires both subscribers who can afford to buy newspapers… Read More »

MEMORIES (N.D.A.1996) Among the earliest memories of my childhood are the stories from these epics told to me by my mother or the older ladies of the house, just as a child in Europe or America might listen to fairy tales or stories of adventure. There was for me both the adventure and the fairy tale element in… Read More »

PASSION (Hotel Management, 1995) Read the Passage carefully and answers the following Questions:-  It is to progress in the human sciences that we must look to undo the evils which have resulted from a knowledge of the physical world hastily and superficially acquired by populations unconscious of the changes in themselves that the new knowledge has made imperative.… Read More »

SELDOM There are some men who seem to be always on the lookout for trouble and, to tell the truth, they are seldom disappointed. Listening to such men one would think that this world is one of the stormiest and most disagreeable places. Yet, after all, it is not such a bad place and the difficulty is often… Read More »

CULTURE (C.D.S.1995)  Culture is the cultivation of a plant or garden, not the eradication of its roots; it is an understanding of the roots and seeds, their patient care and instructed nourishment. Culture is not knowledge, nor is it art, still less is its acquaintance with literature and art. By culture, I mean first of all what the… Read More »

RUTHERFORD Read the Passage carefully and answers the following Questions:-  Ernest Rutherford was the son of a Scot emigrant to New Zealand. His parents had 12 children, of whom Ernest was the fourth. His education was in a state primary school from which children at the age of 13 could get grants of scholarships to secondary schools and… Read More »

QUESTION OF EDUCATION (U.D.C.1995)  It is difficult to reconcile the ideas of different schools of thought on the question of education. Some people maintain that pupils at school should concentrate on a narrow range of subjects which will benefit them directly in their subsequent careers. Others contend that they should study a wide range of subjects so that… Read More »

NOBEL COMMITTEE (N.Dak. 1994) Read the Passage carefully and answers the following Questions:- The  Nobel  Committee, in fact, a notoriously conservative body which among other things had a marked antipathy to pure sciences, especially to Mathematical Physics. Restrained .by a clause in Alfred Nobel’s will that the prize should go to the person whose ‘discovery or invention’ shall… Read More »

PATIENCE Patience is better than wisdom: An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. All men praise patience, but few can practice it. It is a medicine which is good for all diseases, but it is not every garden that grows the herbs to make it wit. Many people are born crying, live canola; fining and… Read More »

MY LIFE (L.E.C.1993) The last half of my life has been lived in one of those painful epochs of human history during which the world is getting worse, and past victories which had seemed to be definitive have turned out to be only temporary. When I was young, Victorian optimism was taken for granted would speed thought Torah… Read More »