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Education Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

79 Education quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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Those who know how to think need no teachers, urging self‑directed learning. The quotes stress that courage is essential, otherwise knowledge can melt like wax. They also link basic education across cities and villages, aiming to bring out the best in every child.

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There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.

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A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

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Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Samskrit learning.

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The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel.

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Those who know how to think need no teachers.

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By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.

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

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Literacy in itself is no education.

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

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Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of…

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The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all.

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

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Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.

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

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

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I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being…

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The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in…

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Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily…

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All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not…

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The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the…

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Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will…

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In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed…

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

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I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions.…

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After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some…

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The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the…

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While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in dietetics in…

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A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who…

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A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who…

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“Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original…

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“There is an incident which occurred at the examination during my first year at the high school and which is worth recording.…

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Let our lives be open books for all to study.

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It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.

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Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.

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Learn as if you will live forever.

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

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

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The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the…

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

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

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I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death…

Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

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“Where there is life.”

If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.