ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT OF ECCD PROGRAMMES

Lesson 03: Application of educational philosophies / theories to ECE

Rabindranath Tagore

Education is the highest purpose of man’s life which can be achieved through ‘Nature contact'. The objective of education is the freedom of mind which can only be achieved through path of freedom.

• The man’s most cruel and wasteful mistake is to expect child to learn in the same manner as adults learned. We should let the children explore the world in their own manner. We should observe child’s thoughts as they have subconscious mind which is more active than their conscious intelligence.
• Living ideas cannot be set into clock-work arrangement. He was completely against punishment.
• An ideal school is an Ashram where men have gathered for the highest end of life. His main objective was to provide spiritual culture to children.
• “A teacher can never truly teach unless he is learning himself.” The teacher should have guiding spirit and the ability to facilitate it with personal love. He considered teacher more important than the method.