Focus on perfection leads to inability to learn from mistakes

 1. Aiming at the ideology of Ahimsa(non-violence), Gandhi took it too extreme that self defence was a form of Himsa (violence).

According to Gandhi, when Hitler killed five million Jews, the Jews would have died a heroic death by committing suicide, which means they should have neither fought back nor tried to escape. In this case, Gandhi completely misunderstood Ahimsa. Instead, non-violence should be preached to the aggressor, not the victim. A victim has a complete and moral right to self defence.

2. Now let us look at his views on technology and modernization He is far from what is claimed. He is a mere reactionary.

"It is not the British people who are ruling India, but it is modern civilization  through its railways, telegraphs, telephone, and almost every other invention has been claimed to be a triumph of civilization ... Medical science is the concentrated essence of black magic ... Hospitals are the instruments that the Devil has been using for his own purpose, in order to keep his hold on his kingdom ... If there were no hospitals for venereal diseases or even for consumptives, we would have less consumption, and less sexual vice amongst us. India's salvation consists in unlearning what she has learnt during the past fifty years or so. The railways, telegraphs, hospitals, lawyers, doctors and such like all have to go." [2]

Misconception of technology and modernization conduces to the undevelopment of India at the time; ... "It is not the British people who are ruling India, but it is modern civilization  through its railways, telegraphs, telephone, and almost every other invention has been claimed to be a triumph of civilization... The railways, telegraphs, hospitals, lawyers, doctors and such like all have to go."