• Dr.D.VijayChander

Mahatma Gandhi in his article titled 'National Education' published in Young India on 1 September 1921 has written that it might be true regarding other countries but in India where 80% of the population is occupied with agriculture and 10% of it with industries, it is an offense to make education merely literary. It is apparent from these lines that according to Mahatma Gandhi, education is not only to gain literary knowledge. Although he has tried to confine his above-mentioned statement within the Indian perspective, in my opinion, education cannot be restricted to the knowledge of letters of the alphabet or the study of literature irrespective of the circumstances or the economic resources of any nation in the world. In addition to literary knowledge, education should include the moral, physical and mental development of a person. In course of time, education has to develop a person in all respects in order to enable him to become self-reliant.

Gandhian philosophy, twin cardinal principles , Truth, Thought, himsa, Non- Violence, Technology, Society, Implementation.

"A CRITICAL REVIEW OF GANDHIAN PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.154-161, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906W19.pdf

"A CRITICAL REVIEW OF GANDHIAN PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp154-161, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906W19.pdf