M K Gandhi and Indian Higher Education

This is what Mahatma Gandhi wrote in the Harijan on 2 October, 1937:

• Higher education should be left to private enterprise and for meeting national requirements in the various industries, technical arts, belles-letters or fine arts. The State Universities should be purely examining bodies, self-supporting through the fees charged for examinations. Universities will look after the whole of the field of education and will prepare and approve courses of studies in the various departments of education. No private school should be run without the previous sanction of the respective Universities. University charters should be given liberally to any body of persons of proved worth and integrity, it being always understood that the Universities will not cost the State anything except that it will bear the cost of running a Central Education Department. The forgoing scheme foes not absolve the State from running such seminaries as may be required for supplying the State needs.