III The Role and Responsibility of the Teachers It is by now clear to our readers that Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education is not just an ordinary school, college or university having for its sole aim the excellent training of its alumni in various academic subjects. The Mother has placed before it very high extra-academic goals. Indeed these goals are its real raison d'être; academic excellence and competence in various disciplines of knowledge is only a necessary but no more than a complementary achievement. Now the fact cannot be overstressed that to help in the fulfilment of the real aims of SAICE, it will not do

VIII SAICE: Aims and Purpose Behind Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education established by the Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry and popularly known under its acronym, SAICE, has now a reputation all over the world as an educational institution of excellent teaching tradition, being animated at the same time with very high and noble man-making ideals. This is not just a college or university of the ordinary genre, may be of an excellent quality. It has been founded by the Mother with a particular end in view and that characterises its functioning, also the motives and aspirations of its students and teachers. But what is this

Principles and Goals of Integral Education Principles and Goals of Integral Education as propounded by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother and the experiment at Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry JUGAL KISHORE MUKHERJEE SRI AUROBINDO ASHRAM PONDICHERRY First edition 2005 Rs. 75.00 ISBN 81-7058-806-5 © Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust 2005 Published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department Pondicherry - 605 002 Website: http://sabda.sriaurobindoashram.org

Foreword It is not often realised how important a place Education, in the true sense of the word, occupies in the life, writings and work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Sri Aurobindo was a professor and later Vice Principal at the Baroda College from 1897 to 1905. In 1906, he came to Calcutta as the Principal of the newly founded Bengal National College. At Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother laid the foundation of a new centre of education, and some of the last writings of Sri Aurobindo were meant for the Bulletin of Physical Education. After Sri Aurobindo left his body in December 1950, the Mother announced in the beginning of 1951: "One