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Mahatma Gandhi quotes on Education

  • An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer.

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

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

  • Basic education links the children, whether of cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

  • Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

  • Literacy in itself is no education.

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

  • Literacy education should follow the education of the hand-the one gift that visibly distinguishes man from beast.

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

  • 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 knowledge of facts, but right education.

  • National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.

  • The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.

  • I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.

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

  • By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.

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

  • I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.

  • I do regard spinning and weaving as the necessary part of any national system of education.

  • 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.

  • A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul.

  • Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life.

  • The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.

  • The fees that you pay do not cover even a fraction of the amount that is spent on your education from the public exchanger.

  • Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

  • If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.

  • 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.

  • All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.

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

  • The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

  • The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship.