Question

Why did Mahatma Gandhi think that English education had enslaved Indians?​

Answer 1

Answer:

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 civilization as superior and destroyed the pride they had in their own culture.

Answer 2

Mahatma Gandhi think that English education had enslaved Indians

Explanation:

1. According to Mahatma Gandhi, colonial education created a feeling of inferiority in the minds of Indians. He said that it made him see Western civilization as superior which destroyed his pride in his own culture. He said: it was sinful—it enslaved the Indians—it cast an evil spell on them.
2. Attracted by the West, admiring everything that came from the West, the Indians educated in these institutions praised the British rule.
3. Mahatma Gandhi wanted an education that could help Indians regain their sense of dignity and self-respect.
4. Mahatma Gandhi was in favor of making Indian languages the medium of instruction.
5. Education in English crippled the Indians and distanced them from their social milieu. This gave rise to him a "the foreigner in his own country". Speaking a foreign language(s) meant contempt for the local culture.
6. People had to struggle with their hands & understand an art. They should know how different things operate.
7. Mahatma Gandhi further stated that Western education focused on reading and writing rather than on oral knowledge;

• It gave importance to textbooks rather than life experience and practical knowledge.
• He said that education should develop the mind and soul of a person.
• Literacy—or just learning to read and write—did not count as education in itself.