145. In the above State of law, it would not be correct to contend that Mohini Jain [ : AIR 1992 SCW 2100], was wrong in so far as it declared that "the right to education flows directly from right to life". But the question is what is the content of this right? How much and what level of education is necessary to make the life meaningful? Does it mean that every citizen of this country can call upon the State to provide him education of his choice? In other words, whether the citizens of this country can demand that the State provide adequate number of medical colleges, engineering colleges and other educational institutions to satisfy all their educational needs? Mohini Jain seems to say, yes. With respect, we cannot agree with such a broad proposition. The right to education which is implicit in the right to life and personal liberty, guaranteed by Article must be construed in the light of the directive principles in Part 21 IV of the Constitution. So far as the right to education is concerned, there are several Articles in Part IV which expressly speak of it. Article says 41 that the "State shall, within the limits of its economic capacity and development, make effective provision for securing the right to work, to education and to public assistance in cases of unemployment, old age, sickness and disablement, and in other cases of undeserved want". Article says that "the State shall endeavour to provide, within a period 45 of ten years from the commencement of this Constitution, for free and compulsory education for all children until they complete the age of fourteen years". Article commands that "the State shall promote with 46 special care the educational and economic interests of the weaker sections of the people, and, in particular, of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, and shall protect them from social injustice and all forms of exploitation". Education means knowledge -- and "knowledge itself is power". As rightly observed by John Adams, "the preservation of means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country:" (Dissertation on canon and fuedal law, 1765). It is this concern which seems to underline Article 46. It is the tyrants and bad rulers who are afraid of spread of education and knowledge among the deprived classes. Witness Hitler railing against universal education. He said : "Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction". (Rauschning, The voice of destruction : Hitler speaks). A true democracy is one where education is universal, where people understand what is good for them and the nation and know how to, govern themselves. The three Articles 45, and are designed to 46 41 achieve the said goal among others. It is in the light of these articles that the content and parameters of the right to education have to be determined. Right to education, understood in the context of Articles and 41, means : (a) every child/citizen of this country has a 45 right to free education until he completes the age of fourteen years, and (b) after a child/citizen completes 14 years, his right to education is