Basic Education in Modern India: A Critique of Gandhian Educational Philosophy

India became independent on August 15, 1947. That was the end of the British rule. Before independence, there were innumerable evils of the then prevailing system of education in India. It was based upon foreign culture to the almost entire exclusion of indigenous culture. It ignored the use of the heart and hand, and confined itself to the head. Moreover, education was imparted through a foreign medium in high schools and colleges.