Mohan-Mala - Mahatma Gandhi

Mohan-Malagreatest. It has sapped the energy of the nation, it has shortened the lives ofthe pupils. It has estranged them from the masses, it has made educationunnecessarily expensive. If this process is still persisted in, it bids fair to robthe nation of its soul.YI, 5 July 1928November 9If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real waragainst war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up intheir natural innocence, we won’t have to struggle; we won’t have to passfruitless idle resolution, but we shall go from love to love and peace top peace,until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and lovefor which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering.YI, 19 Nov. 1931November 10Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself. What better bookcan there be than the book of humanity?H, 30 March 1934November 11A nation building programme can leave no part of the nation untouched.Students have to react upon the dumb millions. They have to learn to think, notin terms of province, or a town, or a class or a caste, but in terms of acontinent and of the millions who include untouchables, drunkards, hooligansand even prostitutes, for whose existence in our midst every one of us isresponsible.YI, 9 June 1927www.mkgandhi.org Page 85