Given below are two statements: One is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R.
Assertion (A): One of the objectives of higher education is to promote critical and creative thinking abilities in students.
Reasons (R): Critical and creative thinking abilities are developed by rote learning.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
1
Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
2
Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A)
3
(A) is true and (R) is false.
4
(A) is not correct but (R) is correct.