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The
Cultural
Education
Centre
or
the
then
General
Education
Centre
(GEC)
was
envisioned
as
a
powerful
cultural
&
literary
connection
point
to
contributes
towards
the
development
of
an
integrated
university
community
and
an
all
sided
growth
of
the
personalities
of
the
students
through
its
co-
curricular
programmes.
The
University
Education
Commission,
which
was
the
brain
child
of
Maula
Abul
Kalam
Azad,
the
first
education
minister
of
the
independent
India
had
envisaged
the
need
to
introduce
the
principles
and
practice
of
General
Education.
Its
aim
was
to
correct
the
extreme
specializatioin
which,
still
now
is
common
in
our
10+2
and
degree
programmes.
Hence
ministry
of
Education
had
appointed
a
commission
in
1948-49,
to
give
this
concept
of
a
visionary
leader
in
to
a
practical
reality.
The
then
Vice
Chancellor
of
Aligarh
Muslim
University,
Col.
Basheer
Husain
Zaidi
had
said,
“The
Aligarh
University
is
residential
in
character.
The
majority
of
the
students
live
in
the
University
area.
It
is,
therefore,
all
the
more
necessary
that
students
be
given
sufficient
opportunities
to
spend
their
spare
time
in
healthy
pursuits
inside
the
campus.
The
General
Education
Centre
will
provide
such
opportunities.
The
students
will
fruitfully
visit
its
museums,
art
gallery,
exhibition
gallery
and
planetarium
in
the
evenings.
Music
programs
will
be
organized
in
the
concert
hall
and
the
music
garden.
The
auditorium
will
be
devoted
to
film
shows,
theatrical
performances
and
extension
lectures.
The
hobbies
workshops
will
provide
opportunities
to
students
to
develop
their
technical
and
artistic
talents.
Today
The
state
of
things
to
which
the
craze
for
specialization
is
leading
in
the
industrially
advanced
countries
the
lack
of
general
education
in
the
individual
and
the
one
sided
development
of
his
mind
and
the
disintegration
of
society
into
functional
groups
living
in
watertight
compartments
is
a
great
danger
for
our
modern
industrial
society.
Without
the
cultural
background,
which
general
education
alone
can
provide,
people
will
not
acquire
the
intellectual
awareness
and
the
social
sensibility
necessary
for
members
of
a
democratic
society
and
citizens
of
a
democratic
state.
They
will
not
be
able
to
discharge
their
social
duties
with
intelligence
and
responsibility
and
the
whole
democratic
system
will
collapse.
Similarly,
moving
and
thinking
in
isolated
narrow
grooves,
they
will
lose
sight
of
the
unity
and
integrity
of
life
and
will
be
unable
to
take
the
total
view
of
things
to
which
philosophy
and
religion
have
been
trying
to
turn
their
minds,
and
the
very
basis
of
spiritual
life
will
be
destroyed.
General
Education
is
intended
as
a
corrective
against
these
unhealthy
trends
in
the
sphere
of
education.
Its
object
is
to
provide
every
young
man
and
woman
(as
a
necessary
complement
to
the
special
study
of
one
or
more
disciplines)
with
a
general
course
of
study
of
man
and
his
physical,
cultural
and
social
environments
for
the
development
of
right
attitudes,
the
cultivation
of
right
habits
of
thought,
feeling
and
action
and
the
building
up
of
an
integrated
personality.”
In
1960
the
Aligarh
Muslim
University
had
made
its
modet
contribution
towards
educational
reform
in
this
direction
by
setting
up
its
Centre
of
General
Education
with
the
help
of
a
generous
donation
from
the
Ford
Foundation
of
rupees
22
lakhs.
The
Centre
may
be
said
to
face
toward
a
new
kind
of
University
orientation
away
from
passive
learning,
toward
personal
participation
and
personal
accomplishment
and
accountability
a
situation
more
akin
to
the
ancient
ideals
of
unity
of
mind,
body
and
environment.
Source:
CEC
AMU
Website
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