"A Review of Tagore’s Educational Theory and Practice for Vitalizing In" by Josefa Mary Mendez
 

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."

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

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