Question

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

Answer 1

• Mahatma Gandhi needed an education system which would help Indians recover their self respect and sense of dignity.
• In the minds of Indians colonial education created a sense of inferiority as per Mahatma Gandhi.
• Gandhi said Western education destroyed the pride that the Indians had in their own culture and created a sense of superior feeling about the Western civilisation.
• Mahatma Gandhi said colonial education cast an evil spell on Indians, it enslaved Indians, it was sinful and said there was poison in this education.
• The admiration for British rule started rising among Indians educated in colonial instititions.
• To show to the British that Indians were no longer willing to be enslaved, Gandhi urged the students to leave educational institutions during the national movement.
• Mahatma Gandhi was of the strong opinion that the medium of teaching has to be in Indian languages.
• As per Gandhi, education in English made them strangers in their own lands, distanced them from their own social surroundings and crippled Indians.