Mahatma Gandhi’s Thoughts on Education
Mahatma Gandhi’s Thoughts on Education Dr.Shubhangi Dinesh Rathi Associate Professor & H.O.D. Political Science Smt.P.K. Kotecha Mahila Maha.Bhusawal Dist. Jalgaon (Maharashtra) Abstract: Education was one of the several planks of his larger civilization agenda. In which the independence of India was the main thrust. Gandhi’s educational ideals were thus meant to transform backward, illiterate, exploited, desperately poor peasants into self-confident and self-respecting citizens of a new community and nation. So in this paper discuss on Mahatma Gandhi’s thoughts on education & his policy. Introduction: Gandhi was elitist and most practical of our major educational thinkers of this century. Gandhi’s idea of culture can be summed up in his reply of to Rabindranath Tagore: “I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as poss...