Why did Mahatma Gandhi think that English
education had enslaved Indians?
Answers
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✔Mahatma Gandhi argued that colonial education created a sense of inferiority in the minds of Indians.
✔It made them see Western Civilization as superior and destroyed the pride of they had in their own culture.
✔There was poison in the education, said Mahatma Gandhi it was sinful, it enslaved Indians, it cast an evil spell on them.
✔Education in English criped Indians, distanced them from their own social surrounding, and made them "strangers in their own lands".
✔Speaking of foreign tongue, dispising local culture, the English education did not know how to relate to the masses.
✔Western education, Mahatma Gandhi said, focused on reading and writing rather than oral knowledge ; It valued text books rather than live experienced and practical knowledge.
✔He argued that education is necessary to develop a person's mind and soul.
Explanation:
Mahatma Gandhi thought that English education had enslaved Indians because colonial education created a sense of inferiority in the minds of Indians. It made them to see western civilisation as superior and destroyed the pride they had in their own culture.