200+ Inspirational Thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Education:
- A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.
- 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.
- An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer.
- An eye for an eye ends up only making the whole world blind.
- An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
- Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.
- Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.
- Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.
- Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.
- Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.
- Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.
- First, they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.
- Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the child under training?
- It is now my opinion that in all Indian curricula of higher education there should be a place for Hindi, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic and English besides of course the vernacular.
- Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.
- Learning takes us through many stages of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.
- Literacy in itself is no education. Literacy is not the end of education or even the beginning. By education I mean an all-round drawing out of the best in the child and man-body, mind and spirit.
- Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.
- Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life. The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one’s life usefully is the best education for citizenship.
- My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.
- Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.
- The purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
- Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.
- Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.
- Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
- The aim of a university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country’s freedom.
- The alphabet of ahimsa is best learnt in domestic school and I can say from experience that if we secure success there, we are sure to do so everywhere else.
- The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life’s activities.
- There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.
- Those who know how to think to need no teachers.
- Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.
- True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.
- What is really needed to make democracy function is not the knowledge of facts, but the right education.
- You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Life:
- A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.
- A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.
- A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
- A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.
- Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
- All compromise is based on giving and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is surrender. For it is all given and no take.
- An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does the truth become error because nobody will see it.
- Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.
- But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.
- Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.
- Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, and a vision.
- Constant development is the law of life and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
- Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.
- Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request and everything your heart desires must come to you.
- Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
- Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
- Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.
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