Education

Ghandi's experiences in London are particularly interesting because of the wide variety of things he is assailed with. He finds himself swimming in a foreign culture often times at odds with his own values. Ghandi finds himself reading a variety of things for the first time- both his own sacred hindu texts as well as being introduced to the Bible by his friends. For Ghandi, the institutionalized education he receives is less helpful to him because he is forced to adjust himself to the system. Ghandi's informal education that he receives is largely of his own devising; he joins groups, seeks out vegetarian diners, etc. Whereas law school introduces a series of external facts and cases, Ghandi is always intensely interested in the inward journey. In his informal education, Ghandi is his own teacher, sets his own syllabus of study, and ultimately learns about the world by examining himself instead of the other way around.