Higher education is popularly taken to mean education that is imparted in Colleges under Universities. Its external test is the possession of a degree. Its intrinsic quality is the possession of a distinctive attitude to life based on intellectualism.
Hence, a person claiming higher education must not only possess knowledge but must be able to apply it in day-to-day affairs of life. He should not be a bookful blockhead. He shall have to be worthy of the University degree he receives ever afterwards.
Some look down upon higher education as not of very great practical utility in life. After all, India is an over-taught country. Here the plan for uplifting higher education is framed first, allotting enormous amount of money and then the scheme of primary education is fitted in with it. Judging by the poor state of primary education, a highly educated man is like the beacon-light in a dead level of sand, a Gulliver among Lilliputians.
