Gandhiji as Naturalist Idealist and Pragmatists: Mahatma Gandhi successfully synthesized different philosophies of education and emerged as a naturalist, idealist and pragmatist. His philosophy is Indian in origin and Indian in the setting. It the result of profound thinking and the experimentation by the leader of the nation. He knew the West and understood the East. It has, therefore, the best educational philosophies of the East and the West i.e. Naturalism, of all the Idealism and Pragmatism. In the words of Dr M.S.Patel, “Gandhi’s philosophy of education is naturalistic in its setting, idealistic in its aims and pragmatic in its … Continue reading Gandhiji as Naturalist Idealist and Pragmatists