Hey Mona!

I am providing you  with the excerpt from one of the article. You can go through this and this will help you. Feel free to ask any other query by replying to this comment.

https://www.mkgandhi.org/gandhiji/07prahlad_harishchandra.htm

Hope this will help!

If you look at it merely from the discipline of the school and attending school, yes, you can say that Mohan was not a disciplined student. The period you are talking about is physical education which was something he didn't like at all. SO he used to bunk physical education classes and rush back home. There were two reasons for doing that, the first was that he was not really keen on doing the physical activity at that point of his age, the second was that his father was ill and Mohan, after being influenced by Bhakt Prahlad had decided that nursing for his father was his responsibility and so he realised that since the physical education period was the last period in school, he would bunk that and rush back home to take care of his father so it wasn't that he was bunking classes and going to watch a movie or just chilling with his friends. Even there he also had justified reasons of rushing back home to serve his ailing father but the uniqueness of Mohan was that whenever he realised that he was weak in a particular subject, he took it upon himself to self study and acquire knowledge on his own so he used to be a voracious reader. He became a self taught student even if you look today, the real cream of students in schools are not the ones who are bookworms or the ones who mug up questions and answers and then just spill them out. The real cream of students who achieve great things are the ones who self taught themselves. They didn't even rely on their teachers for knowledge. They explored knowledge and learned with their own efforts and that is what was unique about Mohan . It reflected more when he went into higher studies but even in school that trait was there.

Tushar Gandhi
Motivational Speaker, Great- Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi

I think what was important is the lesson that Mohan learnt from his childhood from watching his parents both his father and his mother was of not cutting corners and the realisation that  if you took a shortcut then what you achieved will also compromise. If you found the journey to be very precarious and difficult and you found an easy way out, you lost out on the pleasure of having striven to achieve that objective and that objective itself become valueless after sometime and you start craving for something else and you start looking for a shortcut and that is what happens to us today in this mad rat race that we enter into right from childhood in which we are told, is life. Life is not a rat race. We are human beings for a reason otherwise we would all have been rats who would have been struggling around to just eat and propagate. We are human beings because we are supposed to achieve far greater things and we are supposed to strive hard for that, not give up just because it's difficult, not find a shortcut, not compromise so that we can be ahead of others, not cheat.

As a leader of the team, Mahatma Gandhi did not say that everybody else is wrong and that is why everything has gone wrong. He said that I have a weakness and the result is a cause of that weakness. This is what is required by us to understand that every action and it's result, we are to be held responsible. If we start holding ourselves responsible and we look inwards to it, we will achieve far greater things than we indulge in a brain game and say everybody else is wrong and that;s why everything is failing.

Tushar Gandhi
Motivational Speaker, Great- Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi

He was a very mediocre student. If you read his autobiography, you will realise it. He's been very frank about how poor he was and how he lagged behind in studies and like everybody else, he had his favourite subjects and the subjects which he disliked so he neglected those subjects and failed very badly in those. The only thing unique about him right from his childhood was that he was always striving to better himself. He never allowed his weaknesses to hold him back. He identified those and then he decided to overcome those and he made an effort to overcome those. If you read the autobiography, you will read how in his student days he made himself better all the time and how he did not feel ashamed to admit his failures. Right from the episodes of stealing from his father to cheating and getting engaged in immoral activities. He admitted to all his mistakes and made a conscious effort to not repeat those mistakes and that is what makes the difference in him and in his academic career, he realised that he was mediocre and he made an attempt to better himself. He didn't cheat even when famously his teacher wanted him to cheat but he refused.

So here's this cheating story:

It was the period of English and the English inspector of school would come and he wanted to test the level of knowledge of the class so he gave them a spelling  test and the English teacher was walking around to ensure that his students perform the best and he saw that young Mohan spelled a word 'cattle' wrong so he pointed it out to him and said that your neighbour has got it right so look at it and correct yourself so Mohan refused to do that resulting in the fact that the inspector chided him and the teacher that this student doesn't know the spelling of cattle. The teacher also finally punished Mohan for not obeying his command to cheat but Mohan said that if I had cheated then it would have been insulting to you because I would have also hidden the fact that I hadn't learnt from you. That was the ethicality right from the beginning of his life that he continuously practiced and that is what made him a better person as time went by.

Tushar Gandhi
Motivational Speaker, Great- Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi