Gandhi on education

1. GANDHI ON EDUCATION Prof.Dr.Aung Tun Thet

2. INTRODUCTION

3. EDUCATION
The most powerful weapon to change the world

5. EDUCATION
Learning in which knowledge, skills, and habits
transferred from one generation to the next
Teaching, training, or research

6. RIGHT TO EDUCATION
Article 13 of the United Nations' 1966 International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
recognizes the right of everyone to an education
Duty Bearers
Right Holders

7. LEARNING MODALITIES
Visual: learning based on observation and
seeing what is being learned
Auditory: learning based on listening to
instructions/information
Kinesthetic: learning based on movement, e.g.
hands-on work and engaging in activities
Musical, interpersonal, verbal, logical, and
intrapersonal

8. MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES
Physical (PQ)
Mental (IQ)
Emotional (EQ)
Spiritual (SQ)
Cultural (CQ)

9. GANDHI CONCEPT OF
EDUCATION

10. • LIVE AS YOU WERE TO DIE
TOMORROW
• LEARN AS IF YOU WERE TO LIVE
FOREVER

11. EDUCATION
All-round best in body, mind and spirit
Literacy in itself no education
Easily accessible to all
Spending every minute of one’s life usefully

12. EDUCATION
Persistent questioning
Healthy inquisitiveness
Make democracy function

13. EDUCATION
Integrated approach to all round personality
development
Distinction between:
Learning and education
Knowledge and wisdom
Literacy and lessons of life

14. TRUE EDUCATION MUST
CORRESPOND TO THE
SURROUNDING CIRCUMSTANCES
Or it is not a
healthy growth

15. EDUCATION
Closely aligned with morality
Stepping stone to knowledge and wisdom
Help seeker on spiritual path

16. EDUCATION
Teacher learning constantly from students
Deal with moral and spiritual - “Whole person”
Teach us to discriminate between good and bad

17. EDUCATION
For end user – the child
Empower student to confront the world
Develop facts and skills which student has full control
of and evaluate, and make use of
Student driven
Create generation of sane, capable young adults

19. EDUCATION
Not narrow means of making careers and achieving
social status
Seeking larger role for self and society
Produce learned minds and enlightened souls
Discipline and self restraint

20. EDUCATION
Essentially generative
Passed on from educated person to uneducated one

21. EDUCATION
Harmonious development of all aspects of human personality
Physical development
Intellectual development
Spiritual development

22. EDUCATION
Naturalistic is setting
Idealistic in aim
Pragmatic in methods

23. AIM OF EDUCATION
I have done a computer course and earning well
I have a degree in architecture
Self supporting
Earn a living
Cut unemployment

24. AIM OF EDUCATION
Preservation of culture
Character building – more important than literacy
All round development – Three Hs – Head, Hands, Heart
Cultivate higher values in life – moral, social, spiritual – self restraint,
self realization, self insight, self analysis

25. CURRICULUM
Craft-centred
Development of soul
Starting point of all subjects

26. CRAFT-CENTERED CURRICULUM
Cooperative activity
Individual activity
Co-relation of all subjects
Life-oriented
Dignity of labour
Schools self sustaining

27. DISCIPLINE
Self discipline - Not imposed
Social discipline

28. TEACHER
Example by attitudes and values
Distinguish good and bad, truth and false
Free and fearless learning environment

29. NAI TALIM
Basic
Education for
all

30. NAI TALIM
•Curriculum aimed at preparing good society, not just
literate and/or educated one
•Freedom: From ignorance, illiteracy, superstition, etc.
•Silent social revolution

31. NAI TALIM
•Useful and purposeful physical labour
•Holistic development of body, mind and soul
•Inclusive and coordinated education

32. NAI TALIM
•Handicrafts, art and drawing most fundamental
teaching tools
•Engaging young minds in learning technique time
proven, informal, unstressed, and full of ageless
wisdom
•Teaching through art and craft even before teaching
alphabets - “One imparts ten times as much in this
manner as by reading or writing”
•Create free and enlightened individuals = good
society

33. REAL EDUCATION CONSISTS IN
DRAWING THE BEST OUT OF YOURSELF

34. SERVE BEFRIEND

35. FIRST THEY IGNORE YOU
THEN THEY LAUGH AT YOU
THEN THEY FIGHT YOU
THEN YOU WIN

36. Keep your THOUGHTS positive, because they
become
Your WORDS
Keep your WORDS positive, because they
become
Your BEHAVIOUR
Keep your BEHAVIOUR positive, because they
become
Your HABITS
Keep your HABITS positive, because they
become
Your VALUES

38. Many people, especially ignorant people,
Want to punish you for speaking the truth,
For being correct,
For being you.
Never apologize for being correct,
Or being years ahead of time.
If you are right and you know it,
Speak your mind, even if you are a minority of one
The truth is still the truth

39. I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won’t probe into the faults of others

40. If it is man’s privilege to be independent
It is equally his duty to be interdependent

42. STRENGTH
Does not come from physical capacity
It comes from indomitable will

44. AHIMSA
The highest ideal
It was meant for the brave
Never for the cowardly

46. Be the change
You wish to see in the world