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Bibliography
WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO
Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary
Library (SABCL). 30 vols. Pondicherry:
Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press.
Vol. 15. Social and Political
Thought. 1971.
Vol. 16. The
Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings. 1971.
Vol. 17. The Hour of God and Other
Writings. 1972.
Vols. 18-19. The Life Divine.
1970.
Vols. 22-23. Letters on Yoga.
1970.
WORKS OF THE MOTHER
The Mother's Collected Works (MCW).
17 vols. Pondicherry: Sri
Aurobindo Ashram Press.
Vol. 8. Questions and Answers 1956. 1977.
Vol. 12. On Education. 1978.
WORKS OF THE AUTHOR
Sri Aurobindo and the
Mother on Education. Pondicherry
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IV
Sri Aurobindo's Integral Education
Dissatisfaction with the conventional education of the time may be traced
back to Jean Jacques Rousseau; it was expressed forcefully later by Tolstoy. But
a clear awareness of the true needs of education dawned really with this
century.
In the U.S.A., Dewey wrote:
The child is the starting-point, the center, and the end. His
development, his growth, is the ideal. It alone furnishes the standard. To the
growth of the child all studies are subservient; they are instruments valued as
they serve the needs of
growth. Personality, character, is more than subject-matter. Not knowledge or
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EDUCATION
AND
THE AIM OF HUMAN LIFE
Publisher's Note
This book is a study of the educational ideal of Sri Aurobindo
and the Mother and of the educational method being developed at
the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. Its author,
Pavitra, was the first director of the Centre of Education. In the
first section of the book he affirms the need of an "integral"
education - one aimed at developing all the faculties of the human
being, including the soul and spirit - and outlines the character of
such an education. In the second section he explains the new
system being attempted at the Centre of Education. In the third he
summarises the educational theory a
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IV
The Class Work
I shall not speak of the teaching of reading, writing and
counting. This teaching is started in the Kindergarten and pursued during the
first two years of the school. It is a subject which has received considerable
attention outside and we freely use the Montessori and other similar methods,
though we do not follow strictly any one of them. The classes are small (not
more than10-15 children) and there is a blending of collective teaching with
individual attention: we make a large use of educational games and other devices
that we owe to the ingenuity of our teacher.
It has been found preferable to
have two teachers for one class, one of them gi
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The Educational Environment
The purpose of the school environment is to give to the child
the stimuli that impel him to a self-educative activity. These
stimuli are produced by the multiple objects that constitute
the equipment of the class-room. In theory, they have to
fulfil a double condition. Firstly, they should correspond to
actual needs of the children of the class; and secondly, all
the needs of these children should find satisfaction in them.
In simpler words, no need should be left unsatisfied, no
object should be felt as useless. In practice, the environment
must offer stimuli in sufficient number and variety, so that
the interest of all the
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I
The Purpose of Education
The aim of education is always twofold: there is a collective
aspect and there is an individual aspect.
From the collectivity point of view, education is expected
to turn the individual into a good citizen, i.e., into a person
who has harmonious relations with the other members of the
community, who is useful to the society and who fulfils with
zeal his obligations as a citizen.
On the other hand, it may be expected that education will
give to the individual a strong and healthy body, help him in building up his
character and attaining self-mastery, and supply him with good opportunities of
discovering and
developing ha
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Bibliographical Note
The first edition of Education and the Aim of Human Life, published in
1961, comprised only the first section of the present book. A revised
version of that text was issued in the following year. The text of the third
edition (1967) was enlarged considerably by the inclusion of two new
sections: "Our New System of Education", a transcript of a series of three
lectures delivered by the author in 1961 to the teachers of the Sri
Aurobindo International Centre of Education, and "Two Cardinal Points
of Education", a collective memorandum written by the author and presented
by him in 1965 to the Education Commission of the Government of India. This enlar
OUR NEW SYSTEM OF
EDUCATION
( The Free Progress
System )
A series of three lectures delivered by the
means to the teachers Sri Aurobindo centre Of Education on September 24 and
October 22, 1961.
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How The Child Educates
Himself
In Sri Aurobindo's The Human Cycle we find an explicit and luminous
passage, already quoted but which we repeat here because it reveals the secret
of true education. Apropos of the new trends evidenced by the experiments in
education carried out in various countries, he says:
...the business of both parent and teacher
is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his
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Do We Need a New System
of Education?
The title given to these lectures, "Our
New System of
Education", is almost a misnomer, for what Sri Aurobindo
has in view is not a system, if by this word is meant a set of
rules, methods and techniques. What is the essence of our new education? For the teacher, it is a specific attitude
towards the child, for the child it is a way of living, growing
and progressing. The teacher is there to ensure the protected
freedom necessary to the child for his self-educative process.
But for the purpose of carrying this
attitude of the teacher
and this way of living of the child into the collective life
TWO CARDINAL POINTS
OF EDUCATION
A Collective Memorandum presented in
1965 to the Education Commission, Government of India, by P.B. Saint
Hilaire (Pavitra), Director, Sri Aurobindo International
Centre of Education, Pondicherry, on behalf of the Teachers of this Institution.*
""This Memorandum is an official
document stating the position of the Sri
Aurobindo International Centre of Education. It is in fact a summary of the
thesis
expounded in the previous pans of this book. The reader will excuse the
unavoidable repetitions.
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In the right view of things the true purpose of education is
not only to bring out of the child the bes