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The system of education as it prevails today was introduced by the British Government sometime in 1835 with the sole purpose of producing Indian clerks to serve their British masters. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa had correctly described that type of education as ‘mere bread winning education’. Certainly there was no opportunity for the student either to learn or to expand his mind. In 1857 the Government of India founded three universities at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras. This type of education, which killed the inherent talent of the student and his desire to inquire and explore, weighed heavily on the mind of Ravindranath Tagore for quite sometime, right from his younger days.
As a child Tagore hated going to school which he found suffocating and oppressive. The school appeared like a prison for him for he was totally restrained from doing what he wanted to do. It is this early experience of school going which shaped his idea of education when he grew up. His idea of a school was a place where the child is free to express himself completely and develop its own creative thinking. He felt that childhood should be a time for self-learning outside the rigid and restricted discipline of the schooling system evolved by the Britishers. He believed in a system where the teacher should first love the child and help him to develop his curiosity instinct. Tagore felt that the prevailing system killed the natural desire of the child to be creative and that could be developed only in the midst of natural surroundings. His idea of founding such a school was to locate it far away from the maddening crowd wherein peace prevailed and it would be an Abode of Peace—Shantiniketan. This seed-thought germinated and fructified when he founded his own school in 1901, Shantiniketan, near Bolpur in the District of Birbhum, West Bengal.
The system of education as it prevails today was introduced by the British Government sometime in 1835 with the sole purpose of producing Indian clerks to serve their British masters. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa had correctly described that type of education as ‘mere bread winning education’. Certainly there was no opportunity for the student either to learn or to expand his mind. In 1857 the Government of India founded three universities at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras. This type of education, which killed the inherent talent of the student and his desire to inquire and explore, weighed heavily on the mind of Ravindranath Tagore for quite sometime, right from his younger days.
As a child Tagore hated going to school which he found suffocating and oppressive. The school appeared like a prison for him for he was totally restrained from doing what he wanted to do. It is this early experience of school going which shaped his idea of education when he grew up. His idea of a school was a place where the child is free to express himself completely and develop its own creative thinking. He felt that childhood should be a time for self-learning outside the rigid and restricted discipline of the schooling system evolved by the Britishers. He believed in a system where the teacher should first love the child and help him to develop his curiosity instinct. Tagore felt that the prevailing system killed the natural desire of the child to be creative and that could be developed only in the midst of natural surroundings. His idea of founding such a school was to locate it far away from the maddening crowd wherein peace prevailed and it would be an Abode of Peace—Shantiniketan. This seed-thought germinated and fructified when he founded his own school in 1901, Shantiniketan, near Bolpur in the District of Birbhum, West Bengal.
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