Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahatma—applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa,—is now used worldwide. He is also called Bapuin India. In common parlance in India he is often called Gandhiji. He is unofficially called the Father of the Nation...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth2 October 1869
CityPortbandar, India
CountryIndia
True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.
What better book can there be than the book of humanity.
Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.
All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.
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.
The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.
A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul.
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.
Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.
By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.
The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.
Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.
Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.
Literacy in itself is no education.