MAHATMA GANDHI’S

PHILOSOPHY IN
EDUCATION
Dampal, Mendoza, Niere
 PEACE ADVOCACY
3 BASIC C`ONCEPTS (included in passivism article; Fr. Eliseo Mercado, 1998 )
1. SATYA – TRUTH
His principle is based on truth. God is truth
A non – violent person is essentially the seeker of truth => more tolerant, more
respectful for others
“One can win over the aggressor when he is in possession of truth.”
1. AHIMSA
a. It means non – violence or no injury or harm
b. An active refusal to injury or kill
c. Intertwined to satya; belief of absorbing the aggression and in turn, you become bigger
by absorbing him
2. TAPASYA – self – suffering – penance
a. Heroism and bravery, that is dying for others, to offer one’s life, not aggression rather
absorbing aggression to help the aggresor
i. Aggressor becomes weaker and powerless against you and makes you occupy a
high moral plane over your aggressor
 Compilation from speeches and write
ups (Buniyadi, 1937)
Education
Is a lifelong process.
01
A process of..
Moksha
02 Acknowledging and

Way to achieve salvation;

process of making life
03 developing the virtues one
already possessed within.

meaningful
04 “SA VIDYA YA VIMUKTAYE”
i.e, with education , we

05 finally attain liberation.

Akshara – Jnana
(Literacy)
Was considered by Ghandi
as just an essential part of
the process of education
but not the end or goal of
education
 
Purushartha
4 Proper goals of life
 Purushartha

DHARMA ARTHA KAMA MOKSHA

Signifying righteousness Economic values Corporal pleasures and liberation; demonstrating
psychological values spiritual values
 Gandhi’s
Philosophy Aspects
in Education
 Ensured
self – sufficiency
“It works for an all – round
growth of man right from
beginning till end; its
ultimate aim to turn
human knowledge into
his ability…. It is not meant
for his life and not only for
earning his livelihood.”
01.
GENERAL EDUCATION
Knowledge one gets
according to the set syllabi
or just the information one
receives from the available
resources.
 “NAI TALIM”
- Gandhis’ educational
program
- New system of
education that is life –
centered

Divisions
Pre – basic – nursery school
Basic – elementary education
Post – basic – High School education
University & Social Education – Adult
education
“The thinking hand”
GOAL
To build a “non – violent, non –
exploiting social order in which the
ideals of freedom, equality, and
brotherhood can be fully and
universally realized (Pyarelal.1997.p332)
Shareer - Shram
Bread – labour or productive
physical labour

02
Shareer – Shram

Yajna
An act directed to the
welfare of others, done
without desiring any return
for it, whether of a
temporal or spiritual
nature.
MORALITY AND ETHICS

03
Connecting life with moral
values – developing life on
the basis of righteous acts,
thus, imparting knowledge
of morality and ethics
 04
TECHNICAL
KNOWLEDGE
- Gandhi used Buniyadi Shiksha
- Economicdevelopment – prosperity are
to be opened
- “..begin this from the villages so that the
village – children become self – sufficient,
and emerge as ideal citizens and lead
society and the nation (Constructive
Programme, 1940)
 GANDHI’S STAND ON
Ghandi believes that
education is an integral
whole and is an
instrument of social
revolution that does not
only care about the mind
but also body and soul of
student.
EDUCATION
The end of education of
education should surely be
service and if a student gets an
opportunity of rendering
service even whilst he is
studying, he should ocnsider it
as a rare oportunity and treat it
not as a suspension of his
education but rather to
complement (Young India,
1927. p. 342)
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