The title of this study indicates a dissatisfaction on the part of its author with much of the material that has so far been written on Gandhi and education. The present writer has attempted to construct a detailed contextual study of the most decisive period in the evolution of his beliefs on education.

Henry Fagg is a freelance writer and academic, currently living in Tokyo. This, his frist book, is the result of research he carried out whilst studying at the University of Oxford, England.