This  book  is  a  thick description of Gandhiji views on education which he referred as his, ‘Educational fads’ (Autobiography p. 185). His educational fads were based not on well designed educational principles and theory but on his own inner workings of ideas which were essentially ethical. He saw education as means to man-making which ought to have deep ethical potential. In criticizing education in 1919 and in 1937 he had expressed his shock wave of the then existing educational system which lacked teaching through mother tongue, value orientation, nationalism and dignity of labour. Gandhiji’s educational views are embedded in Indian culture, which promote simplicity, hard work, non-violence, truthfulness, mutuality and social cohesion.

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Contents

Preface —Pgs. 7

Foreword —Pgs. 13

1. Prologue —Pgs. 23

2. Evolution of Consciousness —Pgs. 31

3. Mahatma: The Person —Pgs. 55

4. Education: An Extended View —Pgs. 81

5. Leave Schools and Colleges —Pgs. 107

6. Nai Taleem: Background and Concept —Pgs. 121

7. Seed Germinates and Withers —Pgs. 131

8. Paradigm for Re-engineering —Pgs. 141

9. Epilogue —Pgs. 149

References —Pgs. 155

Professor Onkar Singh Dewal was  born  in  1931  in  village Kumparawas district Jodhpur, and was educated at Jodhpur, Udaipur, Baroda and Birmingham (U.K.). He worked for the Government of Rajasthan, NCERT and CBSE. During his active years of service (1956-1991) he was a school teacher, lecturer, reader, professor and principal of RIE Ajmer. After his retirement in 1991 he worked as  the  Coordinator  of  Asian Programmes in Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, Canada, as a consultant in NCTE, and as Hon. Advisor to the Director, NCERT.
Prof. Dewal was the Founder Director of Open School (1979-83). He provided consultancy to LIC of India and National Institute of Bank Management Bombay, during seventies. He was also the visiting fellow at Deakin University, Australia and an invited speaker at the University of London and International Extension College, London.
Prof. Dewal provided consultancy to and worked as resource person for UNESCO, UNPD, UNICEF and Commonwealth Secretariat London. His international travels included visits to U.K., Canada, Germany, Australia, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Mauritius, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Japan, China, Pakistan, U.A.E., Jamaica, Barbados,  British  Guyana  and Trinidad.