Adult Education

Adult are grown-up people. Adult education means educating those adults who are not educated. In some countries, there is little need for adult education because education is compulsory and everybody id educated. In some countries, there is need for adult education because the majority of the people are uneducated because education is not compulsory in our country.

Our country cannot advance until the majority of the adults are educated. It is the adults who form the working class. If they are not educated they cannot understand the problems of the country. They cannot study and understand the development plans. We cannot expect them to co-operate in such plans when they do not understand them. uneducated people can be exploited by selfish persons. They are conservative and believe in superstitions and traditional methods. They do not know the changes that have taken place in the world. They are slow to move with the times.

Nepal is country of peasants. The prosperity of our country are illiterate and ignorant. They follow the traditional methods of agriculture. They do not use improved methods of cultivation and new types of seeds and manure. They cannot market their products at a good profit.

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Female Education

Female education means the education of women. A mation consists of men and women. A nation cannot rise if women are not educated. Women form nearly half of the population of a country. If women are not educated, half of the population is uneducated. A nation with half of its population uneducated a cannot achieve any remarkable progress. Men and women are move on one wheel. In the same way, a nation can march to progress if both its men and women are educated.

Female education has been neglected in our country since the earliest days. We find some isolated cases of educated women in the history of our land. But the majority of women were steeped in ignorance and illiteracy. Homes wee considered to be the field  of work for women.

Women were forbidden to go out and work in other fields of activity. This idea has slowly changed among the educated people, But the mass of the still harbour this idea. We find some educated women in towns, But the village women are still uneducated.

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Roads

The people of a place cannot  live in isolation. They have to remain in touch with the people of  other places foa various reasons. Roads are the means of travelling  from one place to another. Man has been building roads since the earliest days. In ancient times good roads were few and far between. Now-a-days, we have many good roads. Some countries have more roads than others. There are many good roads in advanced countries. But only a few in less advanced country. Our country has only a few good roads, so out country is undeveloped.

There are two kinds of roads: metalled and non-metalled. Metalled roads were first built by Macadam in England in the 18th century, so they are also called macadanised roads. They are built of stone chips and coal-tar. Metalled roads motorable. They are less liable to wear and tear.

Roads are very useful to us. They develop trade. If we have good roads, we can send things that we produce in excess and bring thing that we do not produce or produce in small quantities. Roads also help the growth of industries. If we have good roads, We can bring men, materials and machines for our industries and send the products to other places.

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Nepal

The world contains big and small countries. Nepal is a small country. It lies between China and India. It is nearly 500 miles long and 100 miles broad. The population of our country is fifteen million. Most if the people live in the velleys and the plains.

Nepal is the land of the Himalayas. The major portion of the Himalayas lies in our country. It contains some of the highest peaks, such as Everest, Dhaulagiri, Makalu, Lhotse and Annapurna. To the south to the Terai. The there is a narrow plain called the Terai. The chief rivers of our country are the Kosi, the Gandaki and the Karnali.

The climate is cold in the north and hot in the south. The  Himalayan region gets very cold in winter.  The Terai is very hot on summer. The monsoon blowing from the Bay of Bengal brings rain in summer. The rainfall is good in all  parts of the country, but it decreases as we go from the east to the west.

Agriculture is the main occupation of the people. It is carried on mainly in the
Terai and the valleys. The Terai  produces rice, jute, sugarcane, oil-seeds etc. The valleys produce maize, pulses, bean, fruits etc.The high mountains are snow-covered; the hills are forested. Sheep and goats are reared on the hill- sides. Our country is poor in minerals. But the lack of minerals has been comoensated by hydro-electric power.
Nepal is a secular state. The people enjoy freedom if religion. There are different religious classes, the major ones being the Hindus and the Buddhists. Some people are Muslims. There is a small number of Christians, Sikhs and Jains.                                                                                                                                                        

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Buddhist Culture-2

The birth place of lord Buddha (lumbini)

According to a legend, Ashoka erected five commemorative stupas in the city of Patan and sixth one at Kirtipur.And also the large number of indian people follow the way of buddhism and as a brotherhood,thses two countries follow the path shown by the Gautam Buddha.There are also several holy places in Nepal and India where people can have medication and worship buddhism.
The history of Buddhism in Nepal is linked with the origin of Swayambhu. Swayambhu purana,the sanskrit manuscript of fourteenth century,accounts the origin of the Swayambhu Mahachaitya.According to to its mythology,the dawn of civilization is the Kathmandu Valley, which is linked with the origin of Swayambhu Mahachaitya.

Innumerable monlithic caityas with polished stone made niches of the licchavi period testify the fact that Mahayana Buddhism was practised by the common people in the valley as their culture stupas are the embodiments of Dharmakaya or Buddha mind. The Tibetans call it as chorten. Stupa architecture consists of a spherical dome, a cubical steeple known as hermika, a spire of thirteen discs or stepping blocks in diminishing sizes.

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Seasons-2

People indulge in feasting and merrymaking. They are free from the scorching heat of the summer season. It is a happy season, it lasts only two months.After the autumn, we have the winter season. It begins in November and lasts till February. It is a season of hardship. It is a cold season. It gets colder and colder as we proceed northwards. People have to wrap themslves with warm clothes. It is a hard time for the poor people. It is diffcult for them to go out for work. there is snowfall on the hills. This is also a busy season, for people are engaged in agriculture. Wheat, barley,oil-seeds, pulses and fruits are grown in this season.

Slowly, the winter season makes room for the spring. The spring, like the autmn, is a mild season. It season. It lasts two months March and April. the spring is considered the king of season. It is a fine season with mild sun-shine. there is no rainfall in this season. Plants and forth new buds and leaves. the green leaves delight our eyes and fill our minds with joy. It is also a seasonof plenty. the winter crops are reaped in this season.

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The Durbar Square

Near the gallery, we can see the Durbar (palace) where the Malla Kings lived. This palace was built by king Bhupatindra Malla. This palace contains fifty-five windows. These wooden windows are artistic and of old design. Besides this main palace, there ate other palaces in the big compound. We saw bullet marks onte walls and windows of some of these palaces. These bullet marks were laft in a battle fought between King Ranjit Malls of Bhaktapur and prithvi Narayan shah. Ranhit Malla fought bravely but was defeated.

Next we visited the ancient temples. First we visited the temple of Taleju Bhavani in the Durbar Square. Then we went to the Nyatapola temple. It has five storeys. It is the highest and most famous temple in the town. It occupies a central position in the town. We all so visited the temple of Dattatraya.This temple, they say, is made of the wood of a single tree. It is partly dilapidated.

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