With his principle of nonviolence, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. He always viewed education as an all-round development and not just as literacy. He stressed on whole development of a child, not just the mind.
"Literacy in itself is no education. Literacy is not the end of education or even the beginning. By education I mean an all-round drawing out of the best in the child and man-body, mind and spirit."
Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever." "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." "An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
"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." "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
