Is computers necessary in education?

Knowledge is power. Vivekananda said “Education is the perfection of the divinity already in man”. Education creates an environment for the mind to blossom and to be more creative. We must not forget that our President has that we have to transform our country to a knowledge power.
To appreciate the necessity of anything we need to move into an era where such thing did not exist. We need to know how the information was exchanged. Any information that was to be exchanged was written in paper just 20 years back and was transmitted over snail mail. The information was not available to us when we needed the most. We had to wait for such information.
Now the World has shrunk. What is the meaning of this sentence? The information explosion has brought all the knowledge from every nook and corner of the world to a 15 inch wonder called computer screen. Today computer is used as storehouse for the information to be mined on any subject on this earth. Any information we want is available to us is at the fingertips i.e. at the click of the mouse. We get all the formation on any subject from everywhere in the world. When information on any subject has become so easy to get the process of acquiring knowledge gets all the more easy.
Hence use of the computers in the process of acquiring knowledge can be very helpful in expanding the horizons of logical reasoning and problem solving capabilities. The boundaries of knowledge will have no meaning as there will be an unending source of information on any subject we lay our hands on. Complete information available with any person on this earth on any subject can be got on the internet. Especially almost all the universities on this earth have hosted almost all their research papers of their scholars on the net and is made available for everyone to study and expand their knowledge base. Almost all the important places on the earth and full information on them is also available on the net. Numerous forums for students on each and every subject on this earth can provide a perfect platform to discuss on various subjects and problems faced by students and their fraternity.
Every place on the earth can be viewed to the minutest detail and great precision and also all the connected data on such place with ease. All the places from the amazing Amazon basin to the great wall of china can be seen on the net which gives insight to the history and the science that go into the making / creating of these wonders.
All the encyclopedias and knowledge storehouses have been digitized and even without internet any information can be accessed with a compact disc which can hold huge quantity of information in a very small space. All the desired digitized data can be stored in a compact disc and can be accessed at any time and any place.
When knowledge acquisition is the main motto of a student the absence of computers for a student in the process of education will seriously cripple this process of gaining insight to mine of information.
Now can we imagine education without computers? IMMPOSSIBLE, is it not?