Why did mahatm Gandhi think that English education had enslaved Indians?

Answer 1

· Mahatma Gandhi argued that colonial education created a sense of inferiority in the

minds of Indians. It made them see Western civilization as superior, and destroyed the

pride they had in their own culture.

· There was poison in this education, said Mahatma Gandhi, it was sinful, it enslaved.

Indians, it cast an evil spell on them.

· Mahatma Gandhi wanted an education that could help Indians recover their sense of

dignity and self - respect.

· During the national movement he urged students to leave educational institutions in order

to show the British that Indians were no longer willing to be enslaved.

· Education in English crippled Indians, distanced them from their own social

surroundings, and made them "strangers in their own lands". Speaking a foreign tongue,

despising local culture, the English educated did not know how to relate to the masses.

· Western education, Mahatma Gandhi said, focused on reading and writing rather than

oral knowledge; it valued textbooks rather than lived experience and practical knowledge.

He argued that education ought to develop a person's mind and soul