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The provision of development of our own technology. But we must community admit that the world has been moving faster and services not only the gap between the developed countries and us brings realism is, if at all, is becoming even wider, And worse to education, still, the main problem of poverty is still looming but also links large. The divide among the haves and have-nots education to has increased. Every step forward we take in rural life and science and technology seems to widen this the community. divide even more. The Green Revolution, which has undoubtedly helped the nation to be self-reliant in food, is also being accused of being responsible for widening the gulf between the rich and the poor. There is something seriously wrong in our approach, if a great step forward like agricultural research is also widening the gulf rather than narrowing it. the a Let us understand this great divide, the divide between the rich and the poor, the educated and the illiterate, the organized labour and the landless, the successful small entrepreneur and the unsuccessful unemployed, the urban and the rural. How did this divide arise and what adds to it? How.can we bridge it? If we accept that true knowledge is wealth, we must look at how knowledge is percolating from its fountains to the needy. Knowledge, like all wealth, grows exponentially. That is the law of nature and we cannot change it. Any flaws in the distribution of this knowledge will therefore have a much more visible effect on the growth of knowledge and therefore all wealth. My perception is that a large section of our society is severely handicapped with regard to some intellectual skills and is therefore unable to use the available knowledge that flows past them. They therefore, remain poor while the knowledge enriches those who receive it. All sections of the society do not receive knowledge uniformly, because of the flaws in our knowledge distribution, i.e. education system. To make matters « Rural Development Through Education System 35