MAHATMA GANDHI’S EDUCATION POLICY IN PRE AND POST COLONIAL INDIA

M. K. Gandhi and Swami Vivekananda tried to give some solutions to above said problem. Mahatma Gandhi promoted an educational curriculum based on ‘Nai talim' pedagogical principle. Nai talim is a philosophy of learning and living. It is a call for decolonizing our minds as it holds open our notions of progress, success, freedom, happiness and well-being for critical interrogation. It is also a compass for creating a new politics, new economics, new spiritualities and new non-violent societies. Therefore, it must be continuously re-calibrated and re-imagined in dialectic conversations with what is happening in the world around us. Narayanbhai Desai once told that Gandhiji told him that we each need to create our own definitions of nai talim (basic Education) in order to keep it relevant and alive. We may be able to give to India of today a new pedagogy which would be rooted in the Nai talim education system as propounded by Gandhiji and yet ever progressive soul of India which has the capacity to express itself in new forms appropriate to the needs of the contemporary culture of India and of the world.