Quotes About Education Gandhi

#1. A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. Not only is this teacher educating her children in violence, she also has to continuously escalate her own violence to keep control. Her method of teaching breeds disrespect and prejudice. Her students have been dehumanized.

Arun Gandhi

#3. The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. Bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. The more you know, the more you will be able to appreciate the beauty of life and your heart will desire to learn.

Debasish Mridha

#8. What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. I am not a teacher, but I am a friend who likes to kindle your heart and awaken your mind.

Debasish Mridha

#15. Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. Often religious education teaches us to conform and creates a psychological prison which is difficult to escape.

Debasish Mridha

#17. I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. Education is the best weapon to fight against the adversity of life.

Debasish Mridha

#19. I teach not by feeding the mind with data but by kindling the mind.

Debasish Mridha

#20. An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer

Mahatma Gandhi

#21. Education must be a great equaliser in our society. It must be the tool to level the differences that our various social systems have created over the past thousands of years.

Rajiv Gandhi

#22. True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.

Mahatma Gandhi

#23. Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.

Mahatma Gandhi

#24. Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.

Mahatma Gandhi

#25. Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Mahatma Gandhi

#26. Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

Mahatma Gandhi

#27. I don't teach. I just show them why to learn, what to learn, how to learn, and the ultimate purpose of learning.

Debasish Mridha

#28. Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

Mahatma Gandhi

#29. True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.

Mahatma Gandhi

#30. The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.

Mahatma Gandhi

#31. Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.

Indira Gandhi

#32. Like the sun, a teacher enlightens a mind with his love, warmth, and light.

Debasish Mridha

#33. Literacy in itself is no education.

Mahatma Gandhi

#34. I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.

Mahatma Gandhi

#35. In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.

Mahatma Gandhi

#36. The best teacher teaches by inspiring students to learn by showing them the ultimate purpose of learning.

Debasish Mridha

#37. The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.

Mahatma Gandhi

#38. Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life. The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship.

Mahatma Gandhi

#39. The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

Mahatma Gandhi

#40. Education helps you to create a new world which is uniquely yours to live and enjoy.

Debasish Mridha

#41. Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.

Mahatma Gandhi

#42. Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff.

Mahatma Gandhi

#43. Education is the fertilizer which helps you to grow and bloom to beautify this world.

Debasish Mridha

#44. A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.

Mahatma Gandhi

#45. In India the human being is a symphonic theme. 'The people' is not a compact, close-knit concept, but a sprawling one, flowing not only into different walks of life, but into the intricately woven multi-layers of privilege, wealth, and education. 'The people' created by Gandhi is a young concept.

Nayantara Sahgal

#46. Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

Mahatma Gandhi

#47. Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.

Pankaj Mishra

#48. The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.

Mahatma Gandhi

#49. Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.

Mahatma Gandhi

#50. Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.

Mahatma Gandhi

#51. All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.

Mahatma Gandhi

#52. True education is more powerful than money or weapons. It is the key to a magical land where nothing is impossible.

Debasish Mridha

#53. Our education system often teaches us how to conform more than how to wonder and venture.

Debasish Mridha

#54. Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.

Mahatma Gandhi

#55. There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

Mahatma Gandhi

#56. I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry.

Mahatma Gandhi

#57. Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

Mahatma Gandhi

#58. National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.

Mahatma Gandhi

#59. Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.

Mahatma Gandhi