Gandhi on Education

GANDHI ON EDUCATION Prof.Dr.Aung Tun Thet

INTRODUCTION

EDUCATION The most powerful weapon to change the world

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

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

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

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

GANDHI CONCEPT OF EDUCATION

• LIVE AS YOU WERE TO DIE TOMORROW

• LEARN AS IF YOU WERE TO LIVE FOREVER

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

EDUCATION

Persistent questioning Healthy inquisitiveness Make democracy function

EDUCATION

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

TRUE EDUCATION MUST CORRESPOND TO THE

SURROUNDING CIRCUMSTANCESOr it is not a healthy growth

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

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

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

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

EDUCATION Essentially generative Passed on from educated person to uneducated one

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

EDUCATION Naturalistic is setting Idealistic in aim Pragmatic in methods

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

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

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

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

DISCIPLINE Self discipline - Not imposed Social discipline

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

NAI TALIM Basic Education for all

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

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

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

REAL EDUCATION CONSISTS IN

DRAWING THE BEST OUT OF YOURSELF

SERVE BEFRIEND

FIRST THEY IGNORE YOUTHEN THEY LAUGH AT YOUTHEN THEY FIGHT YOUTHEN YOU WIN

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 Keep your VALUES positive, because they become Your DESTINY

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

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

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

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

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

Be the change You wish to see in the world