what was the opinion of Rabindranath Tagore regarding the schooling system of the British?
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Not sure if I'm the most appropriate one to answer this, but I just couldn't resist to write about one of my most favourite personalities!
As a versatile genius, Rabindranath Tagore was a very committed educator and I must mention he is in fact, one of the earliest educators to think in terms of the global village. His educational model has a unique sensitivity and aptness for education within multi-racial, multi-lingual and multi-cultural situations.
According to Tagore, the aim of education is self realization. It means the realization of universal soul in one's self. It is a process which cannot be realized without education. He synthesized the ancient 'Vedantic' traditions with the modern western scientific attitude in formulating the goal of education.
Let me mention some aspects of his views about education that I found really awesome.
According to him, nature is the best of all teachers. Nature will provide students with necessary situation to learn things. No pressure should be exerted upon the student to learn anything. It is nature which will ingraft the spirit of learning in the mind of a student to pursue the education he likes and shape his behaviour and character.
He is the one who said goodbye to the book-centered education for the first time which was almost unthinkable during the then pedantic bookish learning system. As he believed confining students only to text books does no good but perishes the natural instincts of a students as well as their creative skills. Students should be freed from the book-centered education system and should be given a broader avenue for learning.
He always emphasized in giving the freedom to learner. He said that the children should be given freedom so that they are able to grow and develop according to their own wishes. And most importantly what he used to think is that it is a mistake to judge children by the standards of grownups. Adults ignore the gifts of children and insist that children must learn through the same process as they do. Students should have their own freedom to learn as they please in various sectors of the realm of knowledge.
According to Tagore, teaching should be practical and real but not artificial and theoretical. As he once said, "Educational institution must not be a dead cage in which living minds are fed with food artificially prepared. It should be a open house, in which students and teachers are at one"
And like he said there, he always believed that there should be living contact between the teacher and the taught.
Above all, Tagore attached great importance to the fine arts in his educational curriculum. To him, dance, music, drama, painting etc. should form a part of educational process. Students should take active part in these finer aspects of human life for these are very essential to enrich one's soul.
He was fully dissatisfied with the prevalent system of education at that time. In one of his articles titled as "An Eastern University" he said :
"In Bengali language there is a modern maxim which can be translated, 'He who learns to read and write rides in a carriage and pair. ' In English there is a similar proverb, 'Knowledge is power.' It is an offer of a prospective bribe to the student, a promise of an ulterior reward which is more important than knowledge itself.."
Not surprisingly, he found his outside formal schooling to be inferior and boring and, after a brief exposure to several schools, he himself refused to attend school in his early life. That is why as an alternative to the existing forms of education, he started a small school of education- “Shantiniketan” which was later developed into a university known as Viswa Bharati, where he tried to develop an alternative model of education that is stemmed from his own learning experience!
As a versatile genius, Rabindranath Tagore was a very committed educator and I must mention he is in fact, one of the earliest educators to think in terms of the global village. His educational model has a unique sensitivity and aptness for education within multi-racial, multi-lingual and multi-cultural situations.
According to Tagore, the aim of education is self realization. It means the realization of universal soul in one's self. It is a process which cannot be realized without education. He synthesized the ancient 'Vedantic' traditions with the modern western scientific attitude in formulating the goal of education.
Let me mention some aspects of his views about education that I found really awesome.
According to him, nature is the best of all teachers. Nature will provide students with necessary situation to learn things. No pressure should be exerted upon the student to learn anything. It is nature which will ingraft the spirit of learning in the mind of a student to pursue the education he likes and shape his behaviour and character.
He is the one who said goodbye to the book-centered education for the first time which was almost unthinkable during the then pedantic bookish learning system. As he believed confining students only to text books does no good but perishes the natural instincts of a students as well as their creative skills. Students should be freed from the book-centered education system and should be given a broader avenue for learning.
He always emphasized in giving the freedom to learner. He said that the children should be given freedom so that they are able to grow and develop according to their own wishes. And most importantly what he used to think is that it is a mistake to judge children by the standards of grownups. Adults ignore the gifts of children and insist that children must learn through the same process as they do. Students should have their own freedom to learn as they please in various sectors of the realm of knowledge.
According to Tagore, teaching should be practical and real but not artificial and theoretical. As he once said, "Educational institution must not be a dead cage in which living minds are fed with food artificially prepared. It should be a open house, in which students and teachers are at one"
And like he said there, he always believed that there should be living contact between the teacher and the taught.
Above all, Tagore attached great importance to the fine arts in his educational curriculum. To him, dance, music, drama, painting etc. should form a part of educational process. Students should take active part in these finer aspects of human life for these are very essential to enrich one's soul.
He was fully dissatisfied with the prevalent system of education at that time. In one of his articles titled as "An Eastern University" he said :
"In Bengali language there is a modern maxim which can be translated, 'He who learns to read and write rides in a carriage and pair. ' In English there is a similar proverb, 'Knowledge is power.' It is an offer of a prospective bribe to the student, a promise of an ulterior reward which is more important than knowledge itself.."
Not surprisingly, he found his outside formal schooling to be inferior and boring and, after a brief exposure to several schools, he himself refused to attend school in his early life. That is why as an alternative to the existing forms of education, he started a small school of education- “Shantiniketan” which was later developed into a university known as Viswa Bharati, where he tried to develop an alternative model of education that is stemmed from his own learning experience!
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Many Company officials felt that institutions should be set up to encourage the study of ancient Indian texts and teach Sanskrit and Persian literature and poetry. These officials were of the opinion that Hindus and Muslims ought to be taught what they were already familiar with and what they valued and preserved, not subjects that were alien to them. They believed that only by doing this the British could win the hearts of the Indians, only then they could expect to be respected by their subjects.
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