Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Children
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Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?
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The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.
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In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.
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India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.
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If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.
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The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.
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God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.
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Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.
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If you want real peace in the world, start with children.
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By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.
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The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.
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Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original capital on which a child starts in life is inherited from its ancestors. I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration.
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A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.
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Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the exhibition. So long as we are children we are attracted by toys, and the tower was a good demonstration of the fact that we are all children attracted by trinkets. That may be claimed to be the purpose served by the Eiffel Tower.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.
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Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith.
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What is impossible with man is child's play with God.
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If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering.
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A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.
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It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself, for we are all tarred with the same brush, and are children of one and the same Creator, and as such the divine powers within us are infinite. To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that Being, but with Him, the whole world.
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If we are to create peace in our world, we must begin with our children.
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A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child.
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.
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Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.
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Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.
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If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children.
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader
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