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Overview
Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, songwriter, novelist, educator and painter who became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1913. He argued for freedom of mind, an education rooted in nature and the arts, and a humanism that refused to be confined by narrow nationalism. He matters for anyone designing learning, because he built a school around those ideas.
Context
Tagore was born in 1861 into the prominent Tagore family of Calcutta, at the centre of the Bengali cultural revival under British rule. He wrote through the rise of Indian nationalism, the Swadeshi movement of the early 1900s and the non-cooperation campaigns, and he often stood apart from both colonial and nationalist orthodoxy.
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Curator's notes
- Why it matters
- Freedom of mind, universal humanism
- Use in training and coaching
- Education design: learning in nature and through arts
- What to read
- Gitanjali; The Home and the World; Nationalism
- Writer
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941)
- Life in one line
- Poet, educator, founder of Visva-Bharati
- Read in this order
- Gitanjali; The Home and the World; Nationalism
- Big idea
- Freedom of mind, universal humanism
- Lesson for your work
- Education design: learning in nature and through arts
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