Gandhi

For the second half of the semester, Gandhi was surprisingly my favorite. I loved learning more about Gandhi than I had know before just for the simple fact of knowing more about his life. But I think the best part about reading Gandhi was the fact that our entire class was devoted to talking about education and colonization and when I read Gandhi I found myself, at first, wondering how it related to anything we were talking about. Of course, as I kept reading I was enlightened by his perspective. The thing that struck me the most about Gandhi was how his education had absolutely nothing to do with school. He rarely talked about his actual classroom time at all in the section of his autobiography that we read. And although I know the point of reading Gandhi was to take a look at colonization from his perspective, but I just found it extremely profound that he did not consider education something you could get from school. His experiences and true "life moments" were what gave him his education

I also loved reading about Gandhi's trials with vegetarianism. We have talked all semester about "you are what you eat" and in Gandhi's case it was definitely true. I just loved that by being a vegetarian he took a stand on being an Indian man and that is what people saw him as, of course to them it was a negative thing. But what he was labeled as, because of what he ate (or didn't eat, I guess) was exactly what he ended up wanted to be labeled as in the first place. Everything that has had to do with food in this course I have just found to be extremely interesting.