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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 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 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