Essay on mahatama Gandhi and his educational philosophy
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Education, to Gandhi ji, was a means to achieve perfection of
individuality on the one hand and an instrument of service to the nation on the
other. Thus, individual and social both the aims of education were considered
by him equally important. “By education mean an all-round drawing out of the
best in child and man-body, and spirit”, he said.
This in other words meant development of whole
child, the whole personality of the child. Harmonious development of all the
aspects of human personality such as physical, intellectual and spiritual was
emphasized by him as an individual aim of education.
Emphasizing the social aim of education he
said that the individual has a responsibility to work for the welfare of the
whole society. “Willing submission to social control and restrain for the sake
of the well-being of the whole society” were considered by him important
attitudes to be developed in the people through education.
Good of the individual and good of the society
were interdependent. So education should be both for the child as well as for
the state.
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