Liberal studies is the speedily moving and widely accepted model of education today. Liberal Studies is not about being liberal about studies or assignment or attendance or exam. The institute may provide flexibility but it is about liberating the mind, knowledge, wisdom, thinking and creativity. In other words, making mind, knowledge and creativity shackle free and not limiting education or a course only to a specific topic or educating self for a particular profession only and nothing out of it. Liberal studies has endeavoured to break the water tight compartment of education, especially university degree education which limited a student in terms of knowledge but also in following a profession and understanding other aspects of the world. Liberal studies focuses on skills, human life, critical thinking and creativity and thus broadens the choice of profession and occupation a person can take with a better understanding of self and world. Mahatma Gandhi the spiritual leader of India developed and practiced a philosophy of education called ‘Nai Talim’ [translated as new training or learning] which focused on all round development of humans like various skills, knowledge, arts, wisdom and above all morality and making them responsible citizens. This system has been in practice in various institutes successfully even in the 21st Century.

1. GANDHI’S NAI TALIM AND LIBERAL STUDIES:
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE TWO
MODELS OF EDUCATION
By Dr. Harmik Vaishnav
School of Liberal Studies, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum
University –PDPU
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4. Gandhi also believed in backward integration in learning…e.g. of a carpenter.
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5. LIBERAL STUDIES NAI TALIM
GLOBALIZATION NATIONALISM &
LOCALIZATION
GLOCALIZATION of 21st Century
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6. THANK YOU ALL
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