ABSTRACT
This chapter exposes the high significance of holistic education that includes the development of head, heart and hands and the emphasis on community learning and creative activity. It also integrates Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's person and position in the contemporary period of British colonial rule. In a speech, N. R. Narayana Murthy, Founder-Chairman of Infosys Technologies Limited, proposed the picture of an Indian professional of the twenty-first century following Gandhi's example. Education for democracy and citizenship is the goal of the educational programme of Vidya Bhawan Society as well. This is similar to Gandhi's understanding of education as a holistic approach that focuses not only on the imparting of knowledge but also on the development of personality and a community spirit. Although Gandhi was not an educationist by profession, he developed educational ideas within his ashrams in South Africa and wrote about them in Hind Swaraj and Harijan.
