The Relevance of Basic Education as Propagated by Mahatma Gandhi in the Present Context of the Society

Abstract

To understand a man is, so to speak, to dig deeper into the background of his life, with heart and mind open. In a similar way, to understand Mahatma Gandhi we will have to take a lot of troubles at our own insistence if we have a little good intention for making our lives variegated with knowledge, reality, and consciousness. The philosophy of Basic Education as propagated by Gandhiji may, in some ways, have some good effects serving as the panacea for the long-standing social diseases. Purging a society of its illnesses, ignorance and superstitions entails a greatly influential thing : Education, to be sure.