Question

Write a short note on the education in
Santiniketan.​

Answer 1

Answer:

• Rabindranath Tagore started shantiniketan in 1901.
• The experience of his schooldays in Calcutta shaped Tagore's idea on education
• he felt that childhood should be a time of self learning outside the rigid.
• he set up his school 100kms away from Calcutta.
• he saw it as an anode of peace where with nature, children could cultivate their talents.
• Tagore wanted to combine modern Western education with what he saw best with Indian tradition.
• he emphasized the need to teach science and technology along with art,dance and music in shantiniketan

Answer 2

Answer:

• Here Rabindranath Tagore started Patha Bhavana, the school of his ideals, whose central premise was that learning in a natural environment would be more enjoyable and fruitful. After he received a Nobel Prize in 1913, the school was expanded into a university, known as Vishva Bharti University, in 1921.

• Shantiniketan is a Bengali name – meaning 'abode of peace'. Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) founded a school here amid pastoral settings in 1901, which later developed into the Visva Bharati University, with an emphasis on the study of liberal arts as well as humanity's relationship with nature.