- An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer.
- Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.
- Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.
- Basic education links the children, whether of cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.
- Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?
- Literacy in itself is no education.
- Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.
- Literacy education should follow the education of the hand-the one gift that visibly distinguishes man from beast.
- Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.
- True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.
- What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.
- National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.
- The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.
- I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.
- By education I mean an all-round drawing out of the best in the child and man-body, mind and spirit.
- By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.
- Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.
- I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.
- I do regard spinning and weaving as the necessary part of any national system of education.
- 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.
- A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul.
- Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life.
- The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.
- The fees that you pay do not cover even a fraction of the amount that is spent on your education from the public exchanger.
- Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.
- If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.
- 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.
- All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.
- The schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for Government.
- The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.
- The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship.
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