Slide 1 : Dr. Sushil Kumar SinghLOVELY SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONLOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITYPUNJAB EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY OF MAHATAMA GANDHI
Slide 2 : BRIEF LIFE SKETCH Mohandas Karam Chand Gandhi, popularly known as ‘Bapu’ or ‘Mahatma’ on account of his saintly nature
Father of the Nation
A great educator
A nation builder
Apolitical leader
A social worker
A writer
Slide 3 : Early life and education:
Born on Oct.2, 1869, at Porbander in Gujrat
At school: slow, hesitant and shy
At the age 13: married to Kasturba
Education: sent to London to study law,18
Work: started law practice in Bombay but not very successful
In 1893: went to South Africa in connection with a civil law case of a firm
Thrown out of a 1st class compartment for he was a coloured man
Stayed in South Africa for 20 years and saw the miserable condition of Indians there.
This was a turning point in his life
Gave up the legal practice and completely devoted to the service of the people
Slide 4 : PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE Supreme God
Truth and Non-violence
Fearlessness
Satyagraha
Service of humanity
Self-discipline and Self-purification
Righteousness and truth highest religion
Ram Rajya as the concept of a society
Slide 5 : EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY A MIX OF IDEALISM, PRAGMATISM & NATURALISM
Green remarked that Pestalozzi was the starting point of modern educational theory and practice so far as the western education is concerned. An impartial study of Gandhi Ji’s educational philosophy reveals that he is the starting point of modern educational theory and practice of the east.
Slide 6 : CONCEPT OF EDUCATION By education, I mean an all round drawing out of the best in child and man- body, mind and spirit.
Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.
The function of education is to bring about a harmonious development of all the four aspects of the human personality, viz, body, heart, mind and spirit.
Slide 7 : AIMS OF EDUCATION IMMEDIATE AIMS
- The Bread and Butter Aim
- Cultural Aim; speech, behaviour, etc.
-Aim of Complete Development; 3 H’s
-Moral Aim; character, courage, strength of conviction, purity of personal life, self-restraint and service of mankind
-Liberating the Educand Aim
Slide 8 : ULTIMATE AIM
Self-Realization Aim: “To develop the spirit is to build character and to enable one to work towards the knowledge of God and self-realization. And I feel that this is an essential part of the training of the young and that all training/ education without the culture of spirit was of no use, and might be even harmful”.
The ideal of self-realization combines both the development of individuality and social progress.
Slide 9 : METHODS OF TEACHING Teaching through Craft:
-Can lead to the highest development of mind and spirit
-Craft should be manual and productive
-Stress should be on co-operative activity, planning, accuracy, initiative and individual responsibility in the learning.
Slide 10 : CURRICULUM Basic craft in accordance with local conditions;
-Mother tongue, arithmetic, social studies, general science including nature study, botany, zoology, art work, hygiene, chemistry, music and domestic science for girls.
Slide 11 : CONCEPT OF DISCIPLINE Gandhi ji believed that:
-Real freedom comes through self- discipline
-Discipline that arises spontaneously from the inner springs of life rather than that which is imposed from without
-Voluntary discipline; which is a synthesis of freedom and internal control
-Self-discipline arises from a life of restraint, fearlessness, usefulness and self- sacrifice.
Slide 12 : HIGHER EDUCATION To revolutionize collage education and relate it to national necessities
There will be more and better research institutes.
State universities should guide the whole field of education
Based on reality; to fulfill the requirements of the society
Slide 13 : CONTRIBUTION TO THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MODERN INDIAN EDUCATION Manual work for the development of intellect and imagination through activity
Basic scheme of education to fulfill the needs of creativity, self-reliance and self confidence leading to self-respect and security
Craft centered education; gives greater concreteness and reality to the knowledge acquired by the children
Education for non-violent social order; tolerance, good neighbourliness
Democratic order for every member of society to right to free education
School as a co-operative community to learn love, truth, justice, equality and brotherhood of man leading to healthy citizenship
Dignity of labour and human solidarity