Mahatma Gandhi who had

Mahatma Gandhi who had anticipated all this thought that this system of education which is so expensive would not do if education was to be brought within the reach of every Indian, rich or poor. He, therefore, thought of a new system of education which has come to be known as Basic Education and which Indian and foreign educational experts have declared to be highly useful. According to Gandhiji, as far as I understood him there are two basic merits in this new system. Firstly, education under this system is imparted not merely through books but through some kind of practical work so that the knowledge which children acquire will not be the result of mere memorising but of actual experience.