Rabindranath Tagore · Philosophy
Tagore the educator: the school he built at Santiniketan, where children learned in the open air, in sympathy with all life, against the ‘factory’ that stamps out standardised minds - a philosophy in which freedom is at once the method and the goal of all real learning.
You learned that Tagore criticised mechanical, fact-cramming schooling as a ‘factory,’ founded Santiniketan to teach children in freedom and in living contact with nature and the arts, and held that freedom is both the method and the aim of education. Explain his critique and his ideal in your own words.
Leads to Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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