Question

why did mahatma gandhi want to teach children handicrafts​

Answer 1

Mahatma Gandhi wanted to teach children handicraft because that would develop their minds and their capacity to understand. ... Why did Mahatma Gandhi think that English education had enslaved Indians? Answer. English education, according to Mahatma Gandhi, created a sense of inferiority in the minds of Indians.

Answer 2

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Mahatma Gandhi wanted to teach children handicrafts because :

✴ He felt that people will work with their hands.

✴ Crafts would develop their minds.

✴ These crafts would develop their capacity to understand and create new things.

✴ That days, education was focused on forced reading and writing than understandable knowledge.

✴ Hence Mahatma Gandhi felt that learning craft would be better. And children wouldn't have much burden.