EDUCATION issue

Mahatma Gandhi once said,
“Illiteracy is a curse in our country.” At the same time he went on to proclaim, “Literacy
in itself is no education.” For Gandhi, “Literacy is not the end of education or even the
beginning.” He elaborated that “Literacy must be one of the many means for intellectual
development, but we have had in the past the intellectual giants who were illiterate.”
Gandhi espoused a well-integrated concept of cultural literacy.