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Tagore adobe of peace notes

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Tagore’s ‘Abode of Peace’:

• Rabindranath Tagore stated Shantiniketan in 1901.
• Tagore as a child hated going to school as he described school as a prison. He said he could never do what he felt like doing in school.
• He wanted to set up schools where children were happy, where they could be free and creative, where the child was able to explore their own thoughts and desires. He felt that childhood ought to be a time of self-learning.
• He emphasized the need to teach Science and technology at Shantiniketan along with art, music and dance.
• According to him, creative learning be encouraged only within a natural environment and hence set up his school 100 kilometers away from Calcutta in a rural setting. He saw it as an “abode of peace” (shantiniketan), where living in harmony with nature, children could cultivate their natural creativity.