DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2020.v08i03.002

Pages: 131-133

Gandhiji was a legend of his time. His vision and ideas are still enlightening the world today in twenty first century. His vision towards Indian society, culture and civilization was phenomenal. During his debut into the Indian politics, Gandhi ji has visited throughout the country for a year, there he saw deeply the real conditions of life and living status of people in villages and cities and imagined the resurgence of villages and cities through improvement in education. He led the freedom movement as well as prevention of untouchability, abolition of caste discrimination, Harijan salvation, liberation from superstition and evil practices, revival of women, village swaraj, panchayat-raj, Swadeshi, Khadi and also worked to awaken and unite the Indian public on social economic issues. He has realized that the villages in India were self-sufficient and every person was engaged in work according to his skill and ability and was contributing to the progress of the society. It is from here that he expressed his education philosophy. In fact, he was an advocate of an education in which each hand should get work to do and having its own skill apart from literary knowledge and thus every youth should participate in the development of their family, village country and society. He should not only stand on his own feet but also contribute to make his village and city prosperous. Connecting every section of the society with education and providing opportunity to work for each hand was his dream, in fact, this is the biggest key for self-reliance, development and inclusion in today's global era. Gandhiji in his education philosophy emphasized the need for a balanced use of mind and body rather than just literal knowledge, which is the greatest need of modern times. The Basic Education or ‘Nai Taleem’ was a result of his all-time experiment and philosophical integrity. The present paper is an attempt to thrown lights on his vision and philosophy of Education and discussing....