Question

why did Mahatma Gandhi think that English education had enslaved Indians

Answer 1

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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.

Answer 2

According to Mahatma Gandhi colonial education created a sense of inferiority in the minds of Indians.

He said it made them see western civilization as euperior which destroyed the pride they had in their own culture.