Santiniketan: Learning from a Way of Life

Abstract

Tagore's Santiniketan is undoubtedly one of the greatest experiments in holistic, value oriented education in the twentieth century, unaffiliated to any organized religion. The author writes of his stay there during the second decade of the century, of the idyllic simplicity, the friendliness and fun, the learning to be responsible without imposed discipline, of the living in h a harmony with nature, with one another, with the silence within, with the mystery of creation, of the creative informality of the activities in the ashram,