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Educational philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore

Tagore's philosophy of education aimed to promote international cooperation and create global citizens through an education rooted in one's surroundings but connected to other cultures. He felt learning should be pleasurable and individualized for each child. The curriculum should revolve around nature, with flexible schedules accounting for weather and seasonal events. Tagore combined idealism, naturalism, and pragmatism in his philosophy. He emphasized physical movement, creative activities, and developing students' aesthetic, creative, spiritual and vocational needs over exam-focused teaching. An ideal school for Tagore would be situated in nature, impart spiritual training, nurture love of nature, and provide teacher-student relationships and manual labor.

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RABINDRANATH TAGORE’S PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION 1869-1941
Introduction Tagore's ideas for creating a system of education aimed at promoting international co-operation and creating global citizens. Tagore envisioned an education that was deeply rooted in one’s immediate surroundings but connected to the cultures of the wider world, predicated upon pleasurable learning and individualised to the personality of the child. He felt that the curriculum should revolve organically around nature, with flexible schedules to allow for shifts in weather, and with special attention to natural phenomena and seasonal festivities. N.B . Pl read the life sketch of R.N Tagore elaborately
Factors Influencing Tagore’s Philosophy of Education Tagore combined the elements of idealism, naturalism and pragmatism. His philosophy of education was influenced by the following factors. 1. Influence of the Home Environment. 2. Influence of the School Environment 3. Love for Nature 4. His Extensive Visits
Tagore’s views on various aspects of Education Meaning of Education: Education is nothing short of the highest purpose of man- the fullest growth and freedom of soul. Object of Education: The object of education is to give man the unity of truth. Education for Knowing oneself: The great use of education is not merely to collect facts but to know man and make oneself known to man. Tagore believed in moral education and having a vision of reality and emphasized in being in touch with reality through training the mind and body through meditation.
Living Contact between the Teacher and the Taught Communication of life can only be through a living agency. And culture, which is the life of mind, can only be imparted through man to man. Book-learning or scriptural texts may merely make us pedants. 1. Discipline: For Tagore, an educational institution is ‘’An open house in which students and teachers are one. They must live their compact life together.’’ 2. Curriculum: Tagore was for a curriculum which should satisfy child’s aesthetic, creative, spiritual and vocational needs.
3.Methods of Teaching: Tagore was strongly against the bookish and exam oriented teaching learning. He emphasized mainly on the physical movement of the child in various learning activities and advocated on constructive and creative activities. 4.Role of Teacher: Tagore laid great importance on the attitude of the teacher.’’ A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame.’’
Concept of an Ideal School Tagore pointed out the great significance of the school atmosphere in the life of children whose mind , like the tree, has the power to gather food and nourishment from its surroundings. The cultural atmosphere keeps the mind sensitive to rich racial inheritance, glorious traditions and concentrated wisdom of ages. An ideal school, acc. to Tagore, should have the following characteristics: 1. The school should be situated in natural surroundings 2. It should provide an environment for reading Upanishads
3.Spiritual training should be imparted to the students 4.School should nurture and cultivate the love of nature and sympathy with all the living creatures among the students 5.Provide atmosphere of freedom to the students 6.Train the children to live in the natural surroundings 7.Impart knowledge through mother tongue
8.School should provide manual labour 9.There should be a teacher taught relationship and the number of students should be limited in the class. 10.There should be a well equipped library.
Tagore’s Contribution to Education Tagore’s concept of education and its practice balance the claims of different schools of educational philosophy i.e. humanism, idealism, naturalism, pragmatism, realism and supernaturalism. His philosophy is a true blend of the Eastern and Western philosophy. Tagore is one of the very few educational philosophers whose philosophy is the outcome of his educational experiments. Simultaneously, he gave a practical shape to his ideology.
Conclusion Tagore believed that, one of the main aims of education is to prepare the individual for the service of the nation and education stands for human regeneration, cultural representation, harmony and intellectualism. Educational institutions should build on the power of thinking and imagination in an individual and help turn herself/himself into a self-sustained building block of human society and a creative canvas of nation on the whole.