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@article{191465,
        author = {Dr.TS Praveenkumar},
        title = {Education, Culture, and Human Values: A Literary-Humanist Critique of Higher Education in Telangana},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {8},
        pages = {6701-6704},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=191465},
        abstract = {Education, from the perspective of English literary thought, has long been envisioned as a moral, cultural, and humanizing enterprise. Matthew Arnold, John Henry Newman, Rabindranath Tagore, and T. S. Eliot conceptualized education as central to the intellectual, ethical, and cultural sustenance of society, emphasizing character formation, creativity, and moral discernment over mere vocational skill. In Telangana, India’s youngest state, higher education has expanded rapidly since 2014, yet it faces challenges including commercialization, institutional imbalance, faculty inadequacies, and ethical compromise. This paper examines the crisis of higher education in Telangana through a literary-humanist lens, arguing that policy interventions alone cannot address the underlying cultural and ethical deficiencies. Drawing upon NEP 2020, AISHE reports, and literary-theoretical insights, the study demonstrates that meaningful reform requires a revival of humanistic values, reimagining teachers as cultural agents and institutions as custodians of intellectual and ethical life. The paper concludes that embedding Arnoldian, Newmanian, Tagorean, and Eliotian principles into contemporary higher education is essential for achieving intellectual, moral, and societal advancement.},
        keywords = {Humanism, Culture, Ethics, Higher Education, Matthew Arnold, Newman, Tagore, Eliot},
        month = {January},
        }