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SABCL - Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library

CWSA - Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo

CWM - Collected Works of The Mother

Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Pavitra (Philip Barbier de St. Hilaire)/English/Eduction and the Aim of human life/Bibliography.htm
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
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Pavitra (Philip Barbier de St. Hilaire)/English/Eduction and the Aim of human life/_Sri Aurobindo^s Integral Education.htm
-05 _Sri Aurobindo^s Integral Education.htm 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
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Pavitra (Philip Barbier de St. Hilaire)/English/Eduction and the Aim of human life/Introduction.htm
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
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Pavitra (Philip Barbier de St. Hilaire)/English/Eduction and the Aim of human life/The Class Work.htm
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
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Pavitra (Philip Barbier de St. Hilaire)/English/Eduction and the Aim of human life/The Educational Environment.htm
III 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
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Pavitra (Philip Barbier de St. Hilaire)/English/Eduction and the Aim of human life/The Purpose of Education.htm
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
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Pavitra (Philip Barbier de St. Hilaire)/English/Eduction and the Aim of human life/Bibliographical Note.htm
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
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Pavitra (Philip Barbier de St. Hilaire)/English/Eduction and the Aim of human life/How the Child Educates Himself.htm
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. Page - 83 I 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
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Pavitra (Philip Barbier de St. Hilaire)/English/Eduction and the Aim of human life/Do We Need a New System of Education.htm
VIII 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
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Pavitra (Philip Barbier de St. Hilaire)/English/Eduction and the Aim of human life/Two Cardinal Points of Education.htm
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. Page-155 In the right view of things the true purpose of education is not only to bring out of the child the bes