Educational Philosophy Of Rabindranath Tagore

Abstract

The renowned poet, litterateur and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore saw education as a ‘permanent part of the unique experience of life’. He said, "'Education is not like a hospital treating the pain of students' cognitive ignorance, but it is a function of their health, a spontaneous expression of the consciousness of their brain.'" He found that most adults consider children to be puppets dancing on strings. By such process they have deprived the children of their childhood. Children do not just need a school for their lessons, but they need a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.

He believed that knowledge could be attained through ‘Prem Aarai Karma’.

1. Freedom
2. Creative self-expression
3. Active participation with nature and humans He said that education gets its meaning and justification only in the presence of freedom.