Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Education
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A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul.
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Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?
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Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.
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In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.
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An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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Literacy in itself is no education.
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Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.
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A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him.
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All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.
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The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.
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Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.
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The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.
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Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.
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By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.
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Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.
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The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.
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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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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader
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