Excerpts from Vinoba Bhave, Thoughts on Education. Rajghat, Varanasi: Sarva Seva Sangh Prakashan, 1996 fourth edition.
Chapter 6: SELF-RELIANCE AND FREEDOM
Boys are taught various bits of information in school nowadays, but they are not taught how to acquire knowledge independently for themselves.
Many people would agree about the importance of self-reliance in education. Self-reliance, for me, has a very profound meaning. It is not merely that the child should be taught some handicraft, some manual skill by which he may support...
