When People Revolt 1857 and After — Social Science 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?

What are the other reasons for separating the power of the State from religion?

Why cotton textile industry rapidly expanded in Mumbai?

Give reason : Different crops are grown in different regions.

Who is responsible for setting up laws related to environment?

What are the objectives of the Indian constitution that advocates secularism?

What is Constitutional Monarchy?

What are the climatic conditions required for growing tea?

Who was Raja Rammohun Roy?

What were the reasons for the Bhopal tragedy?