Mahatma gandhi's educational philosophy and its relevance to modern education
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I attempt a critical overview of Mahatma Gandhi‘s educational philosophy and, very briefly, try to assess its actual implementation since it was first proposed.
Most of Gandhi‘s important writings on education have been compiled and edited by Bharatan Kumarappa in two slim books, Basic Education (1951) and Towards New Education (1953). These writings are mostly miscellaneous, consisting of letters, speeches, extracts from books, and so on, but together they may be taken to constitute a coherent philosophy of education. The most significant single document in all of Gandhi‘s writings on education is probably the Inaugural Address that he delivered at the Wardha Conference of 1937.perhaps, it is not accidental that we are meeting at the same venue sixty-two years later. I shall come back to this Inaugural Address, in which Gandhi is reported to have spoken for 85 minutes (Varkey 4).