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TG ICET 2025 8th June 2025 Shift 1
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The two teachers who helped Gandhiji to found Sevagram were previously associated with Tagore's Indian Centre for International Education at Shantiniketan. There, the great poet, artist, and international lecturer, conceived and brought to birth a plan of education completely short of the super facilities of western pedagogy. Nothing was supplied unless it contributed the immediate extension of the humanity of the students. Tagore's 'Invitation to the world' was based upon certain tangible educational goals. First, to concentrate in Shantiniketan, in the midst of the ashram educational canopy (ashram originally meant 'work' of a practical nature) the different cultures of the East, especially those having their origin in India or sheltered and fostered there. Secondly, to lay in Shantiniketan and in the rural Reconstruction Department in Surul (named Sriniketan), the foundations of a happy, contented and human life for the villagers. In the rural Institute, practical work is done in farm and field in addition to classroom training. Experiments on useful lines go on constantly. Tagore's philosophy of a complete life thus made him link up vocational training with mental development and a culture that is broad-based on the whole human experience. Third, to seek to establish a living relationship between East and West, to promote inter-cultural and inter-racial amity and understanding, and to fulfil the highest mission of the present age-the unification of mankind.
The two teachers who helped Gandhiji to found Sevagram were previously associated with Tagore's Indian Centre for International Education at Shantiniketan. There, the great poet, artist, and international lecturer, conceived and brought to birth a plan of education completely short of the super facilities of western pedagogy. Nothing was supplied unless it contributed the immediate extension of the humanity of the students. Tagore's 'Invitation to the world' was based upon certain tangible educational goals. First, to concentrate in Shantiniketan, in the midst of the ashram educational canopy (ashram originally meant 'work' of a practical nature) the different cultures of the East, especially those having their origin in India or sheltered and fostered there. Secondly, to lay in Shantiniketan and in the rural Reconstruction Department in Surul (named Sriniketan), the foundations of a happy, contented and human life for the villagers. In the rural Institute, practical work is done in farm and field in addition to classroom training. Experiments on useful lines go on constantly. Tagore's philosophy of a complete life thus made him link up vocational training with mental development and a culture that is broad-based on the whole human experience. Third, to seek to establish a living relationship between East and West, to promote inter-cultural and inter-racial amity and understanding, and to fulfil the highest mission of the present age-the unification of mankind.
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