Date of Award
7-1963
Degree Type
Master's Essay - Restricted
Degree Name
Master of Education (MEd)
Department
Education
First Advisor
Robert B. Nordberg
Second Advisor
Roman A. Bernert
Abstract
Rabindranath Tagore, the Nobel prize winner for literature in 1913, was also a noted Hindu philosopher whose influence in the field of education has resulted in some provocative comments at home and abroad. According to him, modern education is preoccupied with developing man's parasitism on the material, thus adapting him to its contours, and limiting him to its limitations. Being dissatisfied with the whole system of education in India, which was impatiently and carelessly fashioned after the institutions of England, Tagore calls it a transfer of European furniture without the living teacher. What he advocates is a system that flourishes out of the nation's culture, which constantly maintains an organic relationship between the school and society. He compares the modern method to a miner laboriously unearthing facts through mechanical toil, whereas it should be working in perfect harmony or collaboration with nature, as education in the forest period of India did. To him, atmosphere is a great deal more important than rules and text books because "it brings from the depths of youngsters every possible response in a process of incessant self realization."
Recommended Citation
Mendez, Josefa Mary, "A Review of Tagore’s Educational Theory and Practice for Vitalizing Indian Education" (1963). Master's Essays (1922 - ). 2306.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/essays/2306
Comments
A Research Paper submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School, Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Education, Milwaukee, Wisconsin