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 DIETOMORROW

• LEARN AS IF YOU WERE TO LIVEFOREVER

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 CIRCUMSTANCES

Or 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 TALIMBasic 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 timeproven, 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

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