Tagores Abode of Peace


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Tagores Abode of Peace

Tagore’s “abode of peace”: 

Rabindra Nath Tagore started the institution named Santi-Niketan in 1901. As a child, Tagore hated going to school. He found it suffocating and oppressive. The school appeared like a prison, for he could never do what he felt like doing. So while other children listened to the teacher, Tagore’s mind would wander away.

  • The experience of his schooldays in Calcutta shaped Tagore’s ideas of education.
  • On growing up, he wanted to set up a school where the child was happy, where she could be free and creative, where she was able to explore her own thoughts and desires.
  • Tagore felt that childhood ought to be a time of self- learning, outside the rigid and restricting discipline of the schooling system set up by the British. Teachers had to be imaginative, understand the child, and help the child develop her curiosity.
  • According to Tagore, the existing schools killed the natural desire of the child to be creative, her sense of wonder.
  • Tagore was of the view that creative learning could be encouraged only within a natural environment. So he chose to set up his school 100 kilometers away from Calcutta, in a rural setting. He saw it as an abode of peace (Santi-Niketan), where living in harmony with nature, children could cultivate their natural creativity.
  • Gandhi Ji was highly critical of western civilization and its worship of machines and technology. Tagore wanted to combine elements of modern western civilization with what he saw as the best within Indian tradition. He emphasized the need to teach science and technology at Santi-Niketan, along with art, music and dance.

    Many individuals and thinkers were thus thinking about the way a national educational system could be fashioned. Some wanted changes within the system set up by the British, and felt that the system could be extended so as to include wider sections of people. Others urged that alternative systems be created so that people were educated into a culture that was truly national.

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    Question : 1

    Rabindranath Tagore started the Shantiniketan in ___________________

    Right Option : C
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    Question : 2

    These institutions were seen as " Temples of darkness that were falling of themselves into decay". Name the institution .

    • A. Calcutta Madrasa
    • B. Banaras Sanskrit College
    • C. Arabic College
    • D. Calcutta College
    Right Option : A
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    Question : 3

    Rabindranath Tagore started the Shantiniketan in _______________

     

    Right Option : C
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