1 Philosophical Foundations & Educational Thinkers · 1.2 Indian educational thinkers
1.2.1 Mahatma Gandhi: basic education and Nai Talim
Gandhi defined education as the all-round drawing out of the best in body, mind and spirit, and his basic education (Nai Talim), adopted at the Wardha conference (October 1937) and worked out by the Zakir Husain Committee, offered seven years of free, compulsory, craft-centred, self-supporting schooling in the mother tongue.
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- Gandhi
- basic education
- Nai Talim
- Buniyadi Talim
- Wardha scheme
- Wardha conference 1937
- Zakir Husain Committee
- Aryanayakam
- Haripura 1938
- Hindustani Talimi Sangh
- craft-centred education
- self-supporting education
- correlation
- mother tongue
- 3H head heart hand
- body mind and spirit
- Truth is God
- non-violence
- satyagraha
- sarvodaya
- citizenship
- Hind Swaraj
- My Experiments with Truth
- Harijan
- Young India
- Tolstoy Farm
- Phoenix Settlement
- Gujarat Vidyapith
- seven social sins
- work experience
- SUPW
- eclectic
- Ramarajya
- karmayogi
- Wardha principles
- Ruskin
- Thoreau
- Tolstoy
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