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Mahatma Gandhi was not a disciplined student in terms of attending the class. What do you think makes Mahatma Gandhi a not so disciplined student?


Mona 14th May, 2020
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If you look at it merely from the discipline of the school and attending school, yes, you can say that Mohan was not a disciplined student. The period you are talking about is physical education which was something he didn't like at all. SO he used to bunk physical education classes and rush back home. There were two reasons for doing that, the first was that he was not really keen on doing the physical activity at that point of his age, the second was that his father was ill and Mohan, after being influenced by Bhakt Prahlad had decided that nursing for his father was his responsibility and so he realised that since the physical education period was the last period in school, he would bunk that and rush back home to take care of his father so it wasn't that he was bunking classes and going to watch a movie or just chilling with his friends. Even there he also had justified reasons of rushing back home to serve his ailing father but the uniqueness of Mohan was that whenever he realised that he was weak in a particular subject, he took it upon himself to self study and acquire knowledge on his own so he used to be a voracious reader. He became a self taught student even if you look today, the real cream of students in schools are not the ones who are bookworms or the ones who mug up questions and answers and then just spill them out. The real cream of students who achieve great things are the ones who self taught themselves. They didn't even rely on their teachers for knowledge. They explored knowledge and learned with their own efforts and that is what was unique about Mohan . It reflected more when he went into higher studies but even in school that trait was there.


Tushar Gandhi
Motivational Speaker, Great- Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi

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