Mahatma Gandhi Education Quotations

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.

All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.

In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.

The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.

A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul.

The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.

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

By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.

The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.

Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.

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

Literacy in itself is no education.

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

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

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

Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

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