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Nai Talim, or Basic Education, is a principle which states that knowledge and work are not separate. Mahatma Gandhi promoted an educational curriculum with the same name based on this pedagogical principle. [2] It can be translated with the phrase 'Basic Education for all'. [3] However, the concept has several layers of meaning.
Nai Talim evolved out of his experiences at the Tolstoy Farm in South Africa, and Gandhi attempted to formulate the new system at the Sevagram ashram after 1937. [164] Nehru government's vision of an industrialised, centrally planned economy after 1947 had scant place for Gandhi's village-oriented approach.
It adopted the education model of Mahatma Gandhi, Nai Talim. In 1976, it was declared a Deemed University by the University Grants Commission (UGC) under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956. It is fully funded by the UGC. In 2006, it was renamed Gandhigram Rural Institute as per the guidelines of UGC.
In 1937, Husain chaired the Basic National Education Committee which framed a new educational policy known as Nai Talim which emphasized free and compulsory education in the first language. He was opposed to the policy of separate electorates for Muslims and, in 1946, the Muslim League under Muhammad Ali Jinnah vetoed a proposal by the Indian ...
[9] [8] Karunaran's work at Agrindus built on Gandhian ideas of socio-economic development, including the work-based education principle [10] known as Nai Talim, [11] and Gandhi's vision of self-reliant village-centered economies.
Gandhi: His Gift of the Fight. Rasulia: Friends Rural Centre. OCLC 22506192. Sykes, Marjorie (1980). Quakers in India: A forgotten century. London: Allen and Unwin. ISBN 9780042750033. OCLC 7772558. Sykes, Marjorie (1954). A picture and programme of post basic education (adolescent education in Nai Talim). Sevagram, Wardha: Hindustani Talimi Sangh.
In Europe, Romain Rolland was the first to discuss Gandhi in his 1924 book Mahatma Gandhi, and Brazilian anarchist and feminist Maria Lacerda de Moura wrote about Gandhi in her work on pacifism. In 1931, physicist Albert Einstein exchanged letters with Gandhi and called him "a role model for the generations to come" in a letter writing about ...
His opponents also attributed casteist motives to his government's implementation of Gandhi's Nai Talim scheme [40] into the education system. [ 39 ] Rajagopalachari's tenure as Prime Minister of Madras is largely remembered for the compulsory introduction of Hindi in educational institutions, which made him highly unpopular. [ 41 ]