Paper-4  Shri Aurobindo's views on Education

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Name; Gohil Umaba B

         Paper no :- 4 Indian writing in English

         Topic :- Sri Aurobindo’s views on education

Sri aurobindo; education which will after the tools where by one can live for divine the country for oneself and for others and this must be the ideal of every school which calls itself national.

According to some learned people the word education has been derived from the Latin term educatum which means the act of teaching ortraining..A groupof educationalist say that it has come from another Latin word educare which means to bring up or to rise

Sri Aurobindo was born in Calcutta on 15 august 1872 at the age of seven he was taken to England for education and in1890 went up to king’s college Cambridge. Here he stood in first class and also passed the final examination for the Indian civil service. He worked for the next 13 years princely state of the Broada in the maharaja and professor in Baroda College. Sri Aurobindo had begun the practice of yoga in 1905 in Baroda.

 Renaissance is new  birth in India if it is a fact must becomea thing of immense importance both to herself and the world because of all that is meant for her in the recovery or the change of her time old spirit and national ideals to the world because of the possibilities involved in the rearising of the force that is in many respects unlike any other and it’s from the mentality and spirit that they have hitherto governed the modern idea in mankind although not so far  away perhaps from that which is preparing to govern the future  . European culture is a turning point .it was first applied that was not so much a reawakening as an overturn and reversal a seizure of Christianisedfeudalised Europe by the old graeceo Latin spirit and from with all the complex and momentous result which came from it .

   Critical pedagogy includes relationships between teaching and learning. Itsproponent’s claims that it is a continuous process of what they call unlearning and relearning, reflection, evaluation and the impact that these action have on the student in particular student whom they believe have been historically and continue to be disenfranchised by what they call traditional schooling. 

   Sri Aurobindo has been widely acclaimed as a modern seer and a Vedic scholar he had headed the first national college of education of Calcutta and had written extensively on subject ofeducation. His approach to integral education   is in itself a unique concept education of the body, mind spirits are each expoused in his writings on education but theirintegration is even more significant. He has also dwelt on the social and psychological aspects of education. His thought has been put to practice at Sri Aurobindo ashrams the auroville and several other school of the country.

  The first principle of teaching is that nothing can be taught this statement of Sri Aurobindo is intellectual approach to education it puts learning above teaching. It makes learning a self-starting, self-propelling process it redefines the role of teacher from mere possessor of information to a facilitator and guide for the learner. I am not aware of any other profound statement in teaching which has such a permanent validity. I wish to quote sriaurobindo here to reflect the wide horizon of his perception education in its international dimension on the one hand that of the external human values on  the other. The world state will give its in habitants the great adventures of peace economic wellbeing general security the intellectual cultural, social activity and progress. None of these are in themselves sufficient to create the thing needed. For the certain psychological elements would have to be present in great strength

                                                              

      First as a religion of the humanitymuch more powerful, explicit, self-conscious universal in nationalist religion of the country secondly clear recognition by man in all his thought and life of a single soul of humanity of which each man and each people is an incarnation and soul form, thirdly an ascension of men beyond the principle and arrangement of the common life which would give free play to individual variation by which the soul of man’s lives and grows great.

His expectation from education are loud able and at the same time they reflect an ideal to be pursued .it reflects the value of a modern world not scuttled by narrow perception and drab materialism it throws light on several other aspects of education which deserve intensive analyses discourse and validation

Adventure in consciousness

The Indianpsychebelieved that man is only one of the numerous manifestation of primary cause but we cannot fully understand him if as an independentphenomenon. He as well as everything else can be understood only when we understand that from which everything emerges.

  The process of education was set into motion to create  the necessary climate for a proper ripening of man and intuition  necessity and curiosity demand of environment and quest for the meaning of life all contributing to it. If the process of evolution itself is movement of consciousness realising its own freedom from its bondage to material and other limitations and 20^th century the era we are leaving behind has witnessed the most momentous events and ideas ensuring greater freedom for man in several floats

Sri Aurobindobelieves that the realisation of such a freedom is not only a possibility but also certainly inherent in the very nature of evolutionary development. The true role of education is in preparing and helping man to arrive there at a new phase of evolution.

Man must aspire to go beyond his intellectual,

But the first the spirits ascent we must be achieve

Out of the charm from which our natural roes

The soul must soar sovereign above the form.

Our heart we must infirm with heavenly strength.

Surprise the animal with the occult god

Then kindling the god tongue of sacrifice,

Calling the powers of a bright hemisphere

                                   _ Sri aurobindo

Sri aurobindo startle’s us by saying that the first thing is a teacher must know is that nothing can be taught .the paradox is not meant to be an enigma he  emphasis the need for natural and spontaneous growth of the child. All knowledge in its scope but would make the whole trend and aim and the permeating spirit not mere worldly efficiency but this self-developing and self-finding.

                  Nationalism

It was Sri Aurobindos influence on the Indian national congress in the first decade of the century which made the organisation include swadeshi boycott and national education in its programme. The fundamental weakness of our Indian educational system is that the Indian student cannot bring his education into any direct relation with the world in which outside the class or lecture room he continues to live.. For that world is still the old Indian world of his forefathers and it is as far removed as the poles asunder from the western world which claims his education.

          We are sometimes asked what on the earth we mean by spirituality in art and poetry or in political and social life a confession of ignorance strange enough in any Indian mouth at this stage of our national history we have really an echo of the European idea that are to entirely different things and have  each to be pursued on its own entirely separate   lines and in obedience to its own entirely separate principle

         India can best develop herself and serve humanity by being herself and following the law of her own nature. Thisdoes not means as some narrowly and blindly suppose the rejection of everything new that comes to us in the stream time or happens to have been first developed or powerfully expressed by the west.necessariliy the new India will seek the same end in new ways under the vivid impulses of fresh and large ideas by an instrumentality suited to more complex conditions but the scope of her efforts and action and the suppleness and variety of her mind will not be less but greater than of old. Spirituality is not necessarily exclusive it can be and in its fullness must be all inclusive

So with all our aims and activities, spirituality takes them all and given them a greater diviner,  more intimate sense.

“ What India needs especially at this moment is the aggressive virtues the spirit of soaring idealism , bold creation ,fearless resistance, courageous attack; of the tamasic spirit of inertia we have already too much .we need to cultivate another training and temperament another habit of mind’’.

Our calls is to young India it is the young who must be the builder of the new world mot those who accepts competitive individualism. According to auroboindo the education which starting with the past and making full use of the present builds up a great nation.

Aurobindo had little love for Britisheducation inIndia which he called a mercenary and soulless education and for its debilitating influence on the inmate’s possibilities of the Indian brain. In India he said students generally have great capacities as in every field he wanted India to crave out her own path courageously.

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