IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319 1775 Online 2320-7876

Mahatma Gandhi and His Contribution to Education

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IzazulHoque

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Education certainly is a means to all-round progress of man. In other words, the pathway to human-development goes through the lanes of education. Moreover, true education is the sole basis of achieving one‘s purpose in life. It is education, which can ascertain ultimate peace for a human being. In addition, the essence of all the ancient scriptures, messages of scholars and thinkers of repute have always categorically expounded the significance of education in human life. He utility, significance and importance of education are inevitable at all levels in all walks of life. It develops into the most beautiful and valuable ornament of human life. Education as expounded through Gandhi‘s imagination and explanation is a means to guide and lead a human-being from his birth to death. It helps man achieve his goal. Gandhi believed that the way modern education was structured; it essentially served one low purpose. He also believed that education had to deal with the moral and spiritual, not merely with the earthly or mundane. The ―whole person‖ was to receive an education.

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