Mahatma Gandhi on Education: Philosophical Perspective

M. K. Gandhi, the lovely and very good minded universal person, who was born in India in the modern age. He stressed on traditional spiritual attitude with the total development from education, which is related to modern age of the world with reference to India. Gandhi is the politician, the philosopher, the socialist and the educationist. He lives with the accumulation of Karmayaog, Dnyanyog and Bhaktiyoga. The thought of Gandhi on Education is the basic way of life for all. Gandhi stresses on total development of a student. The main responsibility is to develop body, mind, soul and the intelligence. He gives importance to emotional and mental development. He says, the student, who is going to be a responsible part of society, we want to stress on his social and moral development through the education. But there is no any kind of philosophy of life in present education, which is going to make a student as a national person. The significant concept of Gandhi is ‘3 H’. The‘3 H’ means to the Head, Heart and the Hand. Gandhi explores this concept about total development of student. Gandhi wants to establish a co-ordination with parallel development of head, heart and hand. It means to Intellectual, Emotional development with work culture of human together. Gandhi will to be a form co-ordination and co-relation between different subjects which is included in curriculum and education faculties. Gandhi gives to parallel significance to Liberal and Vocational Education system of contemporary India. Gandhi’s philosophy of education is collaboration of naturalism, existentialism and spiritualism. Basically Gandhi is a spiritual person. He stresses on spiritual and moral development also. Gandhi stresses on non-violence and communal harmony. He inspired by Jainism. The Truth and Non violence is the divine value of life with reference to Gandhi. So he told that for the implication of these values we will go to do basic change in Education. The Basic education scheme is Gandhi is for the character formation of student with his life security through with any kind of productive work Jhon Duewe says, ‘Gandhi’s scheme of education is, a one step ahead of all the other system. It is a very revolutionary educational effort. We all hope to learn much from India about the Education’. We can see here, Jhon Duewe inspired by Gandhi’s Educational Philosophy. In today’s situation, we can see the importance of this scheme. Right now liberal education is going on totally failed. In this situation we want think again and again on this scheme of education of Gandhi. Today also, this scheme is very useful for the unemployed in India. This is very absolute for all over world, especially for the developing countries. The time to come now, we will think again properly and seriously on this scheme with respect to Gandhi’s Philosophy of Education.