Implementing Tagore’s Educational Philosophy For Creating Corporate Ready Professionals
Journal Title: International Journal of English and Literature (IJEL) - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 6
Abstract
Rabindranath Tagore sometimes referred to as “the Bard of Bengal” was a scholar, freedom fighter, writer, painter and great personality who immensely contributed in Indian Literature. In the late 19th century and early 20th century he reshaped the music and literature of Bengali language. He was the first non European conferred with Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for his collection of poems ‘Gitanjali’. Tagore supported an idea of Bengal Renaissance and persuaded people for accepting the truth through a vast portrayal of paintings, sketches, hundreds of texts, and more than two thousand songs. In his early childhood as every child he was sent to school but he did not like as their the children were not allowed to play. He expressed his experience in classroom teaching in “The Parrot’s Training”, a bird is caged and forcefed text book pages to death.1 Rabindranath Tagore, being a great personality conceived an idea of establishing a unique educational institution on the pattern of Gurukul Ashramas of the ancient-times, from primary to higher education in the lap of nature. He started giving image to his ideas in Shantiniketan, by founding an open air school where he experimented on his Upanishadic ideals of education. Tagore emphasized on reading and learning along with playing and physical exercise. He promoted that through art and creativity a man can broaden the perception of looking into the things with the study of various subjects. In Shantineketan Tagore rejuvenation of education with the dream of encouraging literacy with the imposition of social conduct. This paper attempts to highlight the implementation of Tagore’s education philosophy in India . Rabindranath . He emphasized on the need of developing a curriculum which develop learners into international citizens. His vision was to develop the personality of the students, and learning should be done with pleasure in one’s immediate surroundings. He believed that the aim of educational institution is of intellectual development, physical development, and social development, students must be given freedom along with sensitizing them towards the human life while revolving around the nature. Tagore is regarded as the product of both the best of Indian and Modern Western Culture. The school of wisdom is proud to have him as part of its heritage
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Gunjan Jain
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