Confronting Marginalisation — Social Science STD 8 — Question

Write a short note on Maulana Azad.

Define the term investment?

Define potential resources? Give example.

How did the appointment of residents in Indian states help the company?

What is Munro system?

What are the uses of water resources?

Differentiate between abiotic and biotic resources.

Differentiate between ubiquitous and localised resources.

What is human resource?

“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?