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Since times immemorial, superstitions prevailed on this earth and millions of people believe in them, while many laugh at them and ignore them. Dr Betty, explaining the origin of superstitions ,says that all the mysterious practices together with magic and superstitions come from the primitive man’s feeling of insecurity in a world he could not understand and was powerless to control. So ,he looked for any means of foretelling the success of his hunting or farming and invented rituals, which were supposed to avert evil and misfortune.

The system of examination, as it exists today, does not at all assess the real worth and intelligence of the candidate. If same answers are judged by two different examiners, we find a lot of difference. One examiner may be liberal and another may be meticulous one, the way of marking differs a lot. The present day examination system is nothing but a matter of chance ,no certainty or reliability can be placed. Most of the students suffer from examination phobia, as the date of examination draws nearer, the students start becoming nervous.

When we survey our lives and efforts we soon observe that almost the whole of our actions and desires are bound up with the existence of other human beings. We notice that whole nature resembles that of social animals. We eat food that others have produced, wear clothes that other have made, live in houses that others have built. The greater part of our knowledge and beliefs has been passed on to us by other people though the medium of a language which others have created. Without language and mental capacity we would have been poor indeed comparable to higher animals.

It is physically impossible for a well educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts just as it is for him to make his dinner the principal object of them. All healthy people like their dinners, but their dinner is not the main object of their lives. So all healthy minded people like making money ought to like it and enjoy the sensation of winning it; it is something better than money. A good soldier for instance mainly wishes to do his fighting well.

English education and English language have done immense goods to India, in spite of their glaring drawbacks. The notions of democracy and self government are the born of English education. Those who fought and died for mother India's freedom were nursed in the cradle of English thought and culture. The west has made contribution to the East. The history of Europe has fired the hearts of our leaders. Our struggle for freedom has been inspired by the struggles for freedom in England, America and France.