Law and Social Justice — Social Studies STD 8 — Question

“Literacy in itself is not education”
Mahatma Gandhi wrote:
By education I mean an all-round drawing out of the best in child and man-body, mind and spirit. Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning. It is only one of the means whereby man and woman can be educated. Literacy in itself is not education. I would therefore begin the child’s education by teaching it a useful handicraft and enabling it to produce from the moment it begins its training … I hold that the highest development of the mind and the soul is possible under such a system of education. Only every handicraft has to be taught not merely mechanically as is done today but scientifically, i.e. the child should know the why and the wherefore of every process.
The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. 72, p. 79’
Questions:

1. How does Mahatma Gandhi view literacy?
2. Why does he give so much emphasis on learning a useful handicraft?

Define the following. 
(I) Food security 
(II) Organic farming

What was the label of development of India at the time it got inde-pendence?

Explain how population of the world has grown in History. What has caused the population explosion?

How can safety laws be enforced by the government?

Differentiate substansive farming and intensive farming.

What does the Uttaramerur inscription describe?

Explain Right to Freedom.
OR
What is the significance of the Right to Freedom?

OR
What is the fundamental Right to Freedom?

What is Parliament and how it plays an vital role in democratic country?

What do you understand by 'rainwater harvesting'?