Relevance of Rabindranath Tagore’s Thoughts on Education

Abstract

Modern world is changing day by day, but the main problems of world are same as in the past. World is divided in many parts on the different basis. Environment problems are reaching on alarming stage. Schooling system is such in which students and teachers both are suffering badly. In such a situation the thoughts of Tagore are still relevant not only for India but also for the whole world. According to Tagore a well developed educational system can eradicate all the problems of the world. His naturalism, humanism, internationalism and aesthetic values are the main pillars of his educational system. Today world can be benefitted with his views on education to a great extant. His educational thoughts were his experience gathered his travelling in whole world and his experiments made by him in Santi Niketan and Sri Niketan. The changing environmental condition calls for an innovative educational system; a new methodology, which will not only cater to the child’s basic career, based formal training but that encourages hobbies, creativity and art, enriching survival.