Mahatma Gandhi on Education

Check how the Swedish schools have learnt these lessons on the native language and its importance.
Wonder when the other countries where conflicts take place on any difference will begin to learn? Check out on Swedish Religious education too…..on how to understand and accept other religious values and how the different religions are taught in Swedish Schools.
It’s a matter left to Swedish educationists as to find why the children coming out of their school say they don’t believe in God after learning different religions in schools.

http://www.umea.se/download/18.eb59392124cc061fa280005772/Info+om+den+svenska+skolan_NY_enGB.pdf

http://www.gandhi-manibhavan.org/gandhiphilosophy/philosophy_education_aspergandhi.htm


I find daily proof of the increasing & continuing wrong being done to the millions by our false de-Indianizing education.
Education through a foreign Language entails a certain degree of strain, and our boys have to pay dearly for it.
We, the English educated people alone are unable to assess the great loss that this factor has caused.
The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is Knowledge of English. All these are for me signs of our slavery and degradation.
The foreign medium has made our children practically foreigners in their own lands. It is the greatest tragedy of the existing system.

If I had the powers of a despot, I would today stop the tuitions of our boys and girls through a foreign medium and require all the teachers and professors on pain of dismissal to introduce the change forthwith. I would not wait for the preparation of Text books. They will follow the change. It is an evil that need a summary remedy.

Among the many evils of foreign rule, this blighting imposition of a foreign medium upon the youth of the country will be counted by history as one of the greatest. It has sapped the energy of the nation, it has estranged them for the masses, it has made education unnecessarily expensive. If this process is still persisted in, it bids fair to rob the nation of its soul. The sooner, therefore educated India shakes itself free from the hypnotic spell of the foreign medium, the better it would be for them and the people.

If anyone thinks English has given jobs and economic booms, please check on how Japan within a short period or Germany or Sweden or any Scandinavian country or Taiwan, Korea all got what you may call development. We have only been made to depend on English all these years and all failures of English are bound to come to us if we follow English.
Check how the Swedish schools have learnt these lessons on the native language and its importance.
Wonder when the other countries where conflicts take place on any difference will begin to learn?

Kanchi Mahaswamigal again in தெய்வத்தின் குரல் reminds on the true Indian education instead of what we now have a borrowed education from the past colonial masters, customized to India. He also make a dig at the Nehru’s remark on Kitchen religion, and says yes our religion is Kitchen religion to mean, what we eat influence our mind and our spiritual life and therefore cooking be also part of education. Again in Sweden cooking is part of school education, a compulsory one.