Santiniketan

(Sri Aurobindo, 1909:) “The article Shantiniketane Rabindranath [in this issue of Suprabhat] by Sj. Jitendranath Banerji is another feature of great interest. The writer has a good descriptive gift and the passages which describe the Shantiniketan are admirable; but the chief interest naturally centres in the conversation with the poet which is recorded with great fullness. The private talk of a rich and gifted nature with a power of conversational expression is always suggestive and we await with interest the future issue of this article. We hope Jitendra Babu will give us a fuller view of the remarkable educational experiment which this original mind is developing in the quiet shades of Bolpur. The brief hints given of the moral training and the method of education followed point to a system far in advance of the National Council of Education which is still tyrannised over by a tradition and method not only European but unprogressively European.”

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See also

• Rabindranath Tagore
• Sujata Nahar (“My father wanted his children — we were eight — to have a broader education. To that end we were taken to Santiniketan...”)