He was passivation at school

The educational resources of Porbandar were inadequate; in the primary school that Mohandas attended, the students used their fingers to write the alphabet in the dirt. For his benefit, his father rose to the position of dewan at Rajkot, another princely kingdom. Mohandas occasionally received awards and scholarships from nearby schools, but overall, his performance was only average. He was assessed as "excellent in English, fair in Arithmetic, and weak in Geography; behavior very good, bad handwriting" in one of the final assessments. He missed a year of school since he got married at the age of 13. He was a shy kid who struggled in both the classroom and on the sports field. When Gandhi wasn't caring for his ailing father, who passed away shortly after, or assisting his mother with her home duties, he enjoyed taking long, solitary walks outside.

In his own words, he had learned "to obey the elders' commands, not to scan them." Given his severe passivity, it is not surprising that he experienced adolescent rebellion, which was characterized by covert atheism, small-time thefts, covert smoking, and—most shockingly for a child born into a Vaishnava family—meat-eating. His youth was probably not any more turbulent than that of the majority of kids his age and in his class. What was remarkable was how his adolescent misdeeds were resolved.