It was in such a background and to put his educational ideas into actual practice, Gandhiji evolved the Basic Educational Scheme or Wardha Scheme of Education in 1937.
The major features of the Basic Education Scheme have been given below-
1. Free and compulsory education for all children from the 7 to 14 years.
2. Craft as the center of education.
3. Self-supporting education.
4. Mother tongue as medium of instruction.
5. Cult of non-violence.
6. Ideal of citizenship.
7. Co-operative living.
8. Correlation as the main procedure of teaching.
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