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    CONTEMPORARY INDIA AND

    EDUCATION
    PRESENTED BY

    ANEETA ALEX B
    ROLL NO : 9
    DEPARTMENT OF
    ENGLISH
    TOPIC :VIEWS OF GREAT THINKERS WITH
    RESPECT TO MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION

    1.RABINDRANATH TAGORE
    RABINDRANATH
    TAGORE (1861-1941)

    • Born on 6th may 1861 in Calcutta

    • Prominent poet and profound thinker

    • Establish an educational institution


    named Vishva bhatra in shantiniketan
    TAGORE`S PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION

    • Western Philosophy of education comprises two schools traditional and


    modern.
    • Inspired from ancient Indian philosophy of education .
    • Become the representation of the eastern philosophy apart from others like
    Islam, Confucianism,Taoism ,and Mahayana budhism
    VIEWS OF RABINDRANATH TAGORE

    • All lesson should be based on creativity.


    • All should study history.
    • At higher stages of education , we should give more importance to science.
    • Students individual special talent to be identified and nurtured in natural and
    it is essential for them .
    • For higher education students learn the language based on their choice.
    MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION

    • The media of education discourse also become an important point pertaining to


    tagore’s idea .
    • The use of English in education prevented assimilation of what was taught and made
    education confined only to urban areas and the upper classes rather than rural areas.
    • Tagore believed that without knowledge pattern of rural living and an effort by the
    school to revitalize rural life , academic learning would be incomplete. And this is
    the reason behind the establishment of his own university , popularly known as
    visva Bharati.
    • Tagore streesed on the unnaturalness of the system of education in india , it
    lacks of limits with the nation and its management which was in the hands of
    a foreign government .
    • He contrasted the situation in India with what he had seen in the USSR and
    in Japan , where the governments had been able to educate their people
    within a short time.
    CONCLUSION

    • Tagore may be viewed as a spiritualist in education . Generally , naturalism discards


    transcendental experiences . Tagore was a naturalist but his naturalism was not a narrow
    one . It was a sort of means to spiritualism which he wanted to develop among the boys .
    Tagore was a great champion of education for international understanding .
    • Medium of instruction Tagore emphasized on mother tounge as a medium of instruction .
    Language is the true vehicle of expression.
    • Tagore wanted to reform Indian education.our education system is inspired from teaching
    and works of many great thinkers and philosophers.
    THANK YOU

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