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| Article Name : | | | Dharma of Student, Teacher and Education in Present Context: A Gandhian Perspective | | Author Name : | | | SAHDEV LUHAR | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-1512 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | Gandhi held very high conception for student, teacher and education. Most of Gandhi's important writings on education and duties of student-teacher have been compiled and edited by Bharatan Kumarappa in two books Basic Education (1951) and Towards New Education (1953) as well as some of his essential writings such as Hind Swaraj (1909) and others. Gandhi proposed a humanistic approach to education. He believed education aims at building character, and hence it is the duty of a teacher to provide value-based education – an education that moulds human morally. He opined that education can play an effectual role in developing a wholesome human personality capable of removing all social vices and building a social order wherein man can live in harmonious way with others. For him, education is a potential instrument of manmaking and social engineering and therefore he transmitted that education should draw out the best in the child – body, mind and spirit – for developing peace loving human personality. The ideas of Gandhi were not implemented in education system due to some practical problems but now the time has arrived to follow the Gandhian philosophy if we want to survive and create an independent India. In this way, this paper explores the ideas of Gandhi once again and makes an appeal that the teacher and students should be responsible towards the future of country | | Keywords : | | |
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