Two Conceptions of Education - from Gandhi and Ambedkar
Prof. Gopal Guru
There is a paradoxical dimension to education: it
is both the sources of snobbery as well its transcendence at the same time. This paradox has been detected both by Gandhi and Ambedkar.
Both these thinkers critique the instrumental value of education for the same reason that it is the source of snobbery and alienation; the source that would destroy solidarity.