Sample Answer
Introduction
Approach of Gandhi and Tagore towards education and nationalism were unique and significant in nature.
Body
Gandhi Outlook
- On Education:
- Basic education & Mass-Based Education (Wardha Scheme – 1937)
- Besides learning,
- Focus on 3H
- H – Hand (Skills/Job-Centric Approach/Productive Crafts)
- H – Heart (Moral-Purification)
- H – Head (Spiritual-Upliftment)
- Value based education system
- Harmonious development of mind, body and heart
- Focus on Vernaculars
- On Nationalism:
- Main expressions in the form of Swaraj & Ramrajya
- Focus on secular spirit & religious universalism
- Growth of nationalism in India was a result of cultural diversity, moral and spiritual progression.
- No British Rule in this process
Tagore’s Outlook
- On Education:
- Dynamic & Unique Approach
- Rejected conventional method of schooling system
- Nature & Practice Based Learning Curriculum
- More focus on analysis and interpretation
- Expression in the form of institutions. Ex. (i) Shanti Niketan (1863), further developed into (ii) Vishwa Bharati (1921)
- Adoption of thoughts according to present scenario
- Environmental consciousness
- Moral values
- Interpersonal skills
- Community & society-oriented awareness
- On Nationalism
- Two Aspects of Nation & Nationalism:
- Visualised it beyond the national map
- Visualised it from inside of national boundary
- International humanistic concerns
- Focus on ending discrimination & system of privileges
- He himself writes “I am a poet of the world ….”
- Promoting equality
- This will bring forward shape of true nation
- Two Aspects of Nation & Nationalism:
Conclusion
Due to its rich cultural diversity & amp; economic prosperity Indians also made significant progress in the fields of technology, literature, science & architecture etc.
