The present article focuses particularly on the role and significance of the
arts in the process of primary schooling in Tagore’s school. He defined
education as that which is one with life, and he believed that only education
can give us real freedom. It is therefore essential that in the process
of education we achieve the all-round development of the individual for
harmonious adjustment to reality. The arts should be an essential part of
life and of education, as it is only through the arts that it is possible to
express one’s experience and recognition of the harmonious connection
between the universe, the individual reality and immortality, in addition
to their being a source of pleasure. Only the arts (and nature as a teacher)
enable the development of the entire personality, as well as the perception
of reality and truth. Tagore thus understands the role of the arts in the life
of the individual as a key factor in the formation of his/her personality,
contributing to humanity.
|
