The questions Gandhi set for testing the grown-up pupils’ knowledge of spinning and its allied processes were rather stiff and they demanded a thorough mastery of the theoretical and practical problems of hand-spinning. Gandhi showed how basic education could make the pupils partly earning members of the family, the moment they reached years of understanding. Yet the aim of Nayee Talim was not to teach an occupation only, but through it to develop the whole man in a child. He wanted the students not to feel puffed up, if they were made to sit on a chair, nor to feel ashamed, if asked to use a broom. He emphasised that literary training itself added not an inch to one’s moral height or character-building. . . . BAHUROOPE GANDHI By ANU BANDYOPADHYAYA
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