Value creation,Sarvodaya and participatory democracy-Three legacies for a creative and democratic world order through the process of education

Abstract

Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, Mahatma Gandhi and John Dewey stressed the inter-related oneness of life and its environment as also the potentiality of every individual, whose unique value-creating ability (as Makiguchi called it) was to be nurtured through an integrated plan of learning woven around the home, school and community. Education was not just for the child-it was a life-long activity, and the coming together of the institutions of society for the all-round growth of each of its members, the true test of ‘participatory democracy’. The development of the human being was to be the source of social, economic, industrial and all other forms of development; it was to foster what Gandhi called sarvodaya-development for the welfare of all.

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