History · Colonial Economy
UGC NET December 2018 History
Who stated, 'A University stands for humanism, for tolerance, for reason, for the adventure of ideas and for the search of truth'?
AMahatma Gandhi
BRabindranath Tagore
CJawaharlal Nehru ✓ Correct
DS. Radhakrishnan
Correct answer: (C) Jawaharlal Nehru — Jawaharlal Nehru stated this, so the answer is Jawaharlal Nehru.
Explanation
★Jawaharlal Nehru stated this, so the answer is Jawaharlal Nehru.
★Nehru spoke these words in his address at Allahabad University in 1947.
★He held that a university stands for humanism, tolerance and reason.
★He added that it stands for the adventure of ideas and the search of truth.
★He believed that the progress of a nation depends on its universities doing their duty.
★So the speaker of these words on the university was Jawaharlal Nehru.
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