Mahatma Gandhi Thoughts on Education

Honored in India as the father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi’s contribution to the independence and various social issues could never be forgotten. Gandhiji was a man of ethics, values, and firm discipline. He had great thoughts on Life, Truth, Peace, Education, Success and many more which motivates and encourages young people worldwide even today. According to him, “If we want to reach real peace in this world, we should start educating children”. In this blog, we have consolidated “Mahatma Gandhi Thoughts on Education” which would definitely inspire and shape young minds. Happy Reading…!!

• The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

• Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.

• Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.

• If we want to reach real peace in this world, we should start educating children.

• Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.

• By education I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

• The future depends on what we do in the present.

• You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

• A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

• First, they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

• You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result.

• An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

• What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

• True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.

• Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.

• 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.

• Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

• Everyone to some extent, can do the work of spreading education.

• The purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

• Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.

• I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.

• Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.

• Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

• The schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for Government.

• Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself. What better book can there be than the book of humanity?

• Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

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