Question

why did Mahatma Gandhi want to teach children handicraft

Answer 1

According to Gandhiji literacy in itself was not education. He felt that it was important to begin the child's education by teaching it a useful handicraft and enabling it to produce from the moment it begins its training. He thought that every handicraft had to be taught not merely mechanically but scientifically, the child should know the why and the wherefore of every process.

Answer 2

Becaz according to them All People have Right to education they believe that these children are The Part of god .Gandhi teach them to satisfy the democracy and development of country