Bhaurao played an important role in educating backward castes and low income people by coining the philosophy earn and learn.

Eventually, his father sent him to Kolhapur for further education, where he got in contact with Satya Shodhak Movement and found other sources of inspiration, Mahatma Phule and Maharshi Vitthal Ramji Shinde.

Bhaurao garnered political interest and decided to express his role in the fight for Indian freedom struggle by working in other beneficial fields like public education.

As Bhaurao started working on his program to educate the masses, Gandhiji had also launched his campaign to free India (independence movement).

However, Gandhiji and Bhaurao had a difference of opinion on the subject of accepting grants from the government for educational activities in post-independence India.

[citation needed] Accordingly, Bhaurao Patil established Rayat Shikshan Sanstha at a small village named Kale, on 4 October 1919.