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Education from the Gandhian Point of View | Original Article

Shivi Sinha*, in Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education | Multidisciplinary Academic Research

ABSTRACT:

Gandhi was a man of great ideal which can be well seen in each and every aspect of his philosophy. His vision for education was as great as he himself was. For him, Education meant a holistic response. It is not just a means of livelihood, for him education was something that can transform a person from something he was not to a person who he really was from inside. Education for him meant a change that will bring out the hidden abilities of a person, something that can enable a person to know his inner qualities and capabilities. Gandhi was very much distressed about the education system that was prevalent during his time, which meant only imparting instructions or make a person literate. Literacy for him was not education. According to Gandhi, the goal of education should be given practical training as well as moral training to an individual so that he or she could be prepared for the higher ideals to be conceived conveniently. A person must be educated with the sole aim of becoming morally sound in his actions as well as his sayings. It is the cultivation of a conviction that one should forget everything selfish in working towards great aims. Manual work with learning as per Gandhi was more effective since it will help develop interest in the work which a person is going to do as well as he will be able to give his best according to his capabilities. In present time Gandhi notion on education is very much needed since education today have become a measure tomanipulate things rather than actual learning and man through this type of education system is becoming really selfish which as a whole is not good for a good society. There is a need to review the kind of education system as mention by Gandhi since it will bring a feeling of Universal love and brotherhood and also the same time a person can learn things of actual use in life.