ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I Kunaal Bhandari would like to convey my heartfelt thanks to Mrs. Deepti my English Teacher who always gave me moral support and guided me in different matters regarding the topic. Last but not the least, I would like to thank my parents who gave me different ideas in making this project unique .

INDEX

Introduction of Gitanjali life history of Rabindranath Tagore His philosophy Philosophy of education Concept of education Curriculum Methods of teaching Evaluation of Tagore’s Philosophy

Gitanjali

Gitanjali is a collection of poems by the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. The original Bengali collection of 157 poems was published

on August 14,1910. The English Gitanjali is a collection of 103 English poems of Tagore’s own English translations of his Bengali poems first published in November 1912 by the India Society of London.

The English Gitanjali became very famous in the West, and was widely translated.The word gitanjali is composed from "git", song, and "anjali", offering, and thus means – "An offering of songs"

Poems

• Some poems involve themes related to nature, but here, too, the spiritual is subtly present, as in this poem (no. 57), given here along with the Bengali text in Roman script:

• Light, my light, the world-filling light, the eye-kissing light, heart-sweetening light!

• Ah, the light dances, my darling, at the centre of my life; the light strikes, my darling, the chords of my love; the sky opens, the wind runs wild, laughter passes over the earth.

• The butterflies spread their sails on the sea of light. Lilies and jasmines surge up on the crest of the waves of light.

• The light is shattered into gold on every cloud, my darling, and it scatters gems in profusion.

Mirth spreads from leaf to leaf, my darling, and gladness without measure. The heaven's river has drowned its banks and the flood of joy is abroad

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Alo amar, alo ogo, alo bhubon bhora alo noyon dhoa amar, alo hridoe hara.

Nache alo nache, o bhai, amar praner kachhe --baje alo baje, o bhai, hridoe binar majhe --jage akash, chhoţe batash, hashe shokol dhora.Alor srote pal tulechhe hajar projapoti.Alor đheue uţhlo mete mollika maloti.Meghe meghe shona, o bhai, jae na manik gona --patae patae hashi, o bhai, pulok rashi rashi.Shuronodir kul ḍubechhe shudha-nijhor-jhora. -Ocholaeoton

LIFE HISTORYTagore was born on 6th may 1861 in Bengal in

a prosperous family.At primary level his father provided him

education in Sanskrit language, Indian philosophy & Astronomy.

For higher education he was sent to Bengal Academy wherein he developed an aversion to the prevalent dull rigid and dull education

He was then sent to England wherein he left it and further studied on his own. He gradually started writing in magazines est.

He turned into a poet,dramatist,philosopher and painter. He was then awarded the title of Gurudev

He got the Nobel prize as he translated Gitanajali in English

He established Vishwa bhartion 22nd sept, 1921 whose aim was to create a synthesis of the east and west

He died in 1941

HIS PHILOSOPHYHe imbibed the idealistic philosophy of life

and adopted the highest ideals of truth, beauty, goodness

He advocated unity among all the people of the world

Tagore was not only a philosopher and social reformer but also a great nationalist to the core

To make his country free, he emphasized the need for economic & industrial development social reforms, integration& removal of untouchability together with social reforms & social decimation in all its forms, belief & actions

Philosophy of EducationTrue education should promote the fellow

feelings, love in the humans,nature,international relationship

According to him education should acquaint the child with the voice and mission of individual as well as international life and achieve a harmonious balance between all the factors which he achieved in his Shanti Niketan

Tagore believed in international brotherhood ,hence by society he meant world society

Concept of EducationTrue more effectively than through manmade

institutions. Hence, the education of the child should be under natural surroundings so that he develops love for all things around him.

According to Tagore, "That education is highest According which not only imparts information and knowledge to us, but also promotes love and follow feeling between us and the living beings of the world

CURRICULUMAccording to him the curriculum should be such as to

develop the individual physically,mentally,morally,socially,spiritually to the utmost limits

A curriculum based on activities and broad experiences will develop the personality of the child to the fullest extent.

Hence the curriculum should contain activities, subjects for the development of the personality of the individual

METHODS OF TEACHING

Believing in purity and in his own experiences, innocence of child, the teacher should behave with him with great love and affection, sympathy, affection.

The true should always be busy with motivating the creative capacities of the children so that they remain busy with constructive activities and experience

Evaluation of Tagore’s Philosophy

Tagore considered nature as the powerful agency of for moral and spiritual development of the child

Hence he exhorted that the children should be taught in Forest Schools as in ancient times

BIBLIOGRAPHY

I get this information of Tagore from books & from internet.

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