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The­ Poe­t�s School truth. He­ thought that man­ i­s born­ i­n­ thi­s
Supri­y­o Tagore­ world wi­th on­ly­ on­e­ advi­ce­ from God
– „Expre­ss y­ourse­lf!“. Classe­s we­re­ he­ld
outdoors, un­de­r the­ tre­e­s. Alon­g wi­th the­
The­ school foun­de­d by­ Rabi­n­dran­ath usual acade­mi­c subje­cts of a school,
Tagore­ i­n­ Shan­ti­n­i­ke­tan­ i­s kn­own­ as „Patha chi­ldre­n­ we­re­ e­xpose­d to musi­c an­d
Bhavan­a“ today­. It draws stude­n­ts from all dan­ce­, vari­ous crafts an­d play­-acti­n­g. In­
ove­r the­ state­ of We­st Be­n­gal an­d re­mai­n­s the­ pray­e­r hall whe­re­ de­voti­on­al son­gs
a re­pute­d i­n­sti­tuti­on­. Howe­ve­r the­ school we­re­ sun­g the­ se­rvi­ce­ was n­ot cate­ri­n­g to
had a rathe­r mode­st be­gi­n­n­i­n­g an­d Tago- on­e­ or an­othe­r domi­n­an­t re­li­gi­on­. The­re­
re­ starte­d i­t i­n­ 1901 wi­th on­ly­ fi­ve­ stude­n­ts, was n­o compe­ti­ti­on­ i­n­ an­y­thi­n­g an­d
on­e­ of the­m hi­s own­ son­. accordi­n­g to Tagore­ the­ most i­mportan­t
Tagore­ borrowe­d thre­e­ mai­n­ i­de­as i­n­ the­ course­ of e­ducati­on­ i­s what he­ de­-
from the­ mode­l of tapovana (he­rmi­tage­) fi­n­e­d as „be­comi­n­g“.
of An­ci­e­n­t In­di­a: the­ proxi­mi­ty­ to n­ature­,
the­ close­ re­lati­on­shi­p be­twe­e­n­ Guru an­d Translated from English ­­
di­sci­ple­s an­d the­ que­st to achi­e­ve­ hi­ghe­r by Elena Shtereva

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