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Sri Aurobindo Education Centre, Purulia
(A Research Centre of Integral Education)
The Sri Aurobindo Education Centre is situated at Sri Aurobindo Kendra’s Town Centre at B.T. Sarkar Road, Purulia (W. B.), India.
The Education Centre serves as a field for new experiment and research in education.
At present, the Centre, has provision for education from Kindergarten to Post-kindergarten (Nursery to Class IV). The Centre has facilities for all-around development.
Object and Approach
The objects of Sri Aurobindo Education Centre are:
To evolve and realise a system of integral education and to make it a dynamic ideal for organization.
To organise an environment and an atmosphere affording inspiration and facilities for the exercise and development of the five essential aspects of personality, the Physical, the Vital, the Mental, the Psychic and the Spiritual.
To develop the sense of the ownness of mankind and International collaboration, and
To prepare for the role that India has to play I the formation of the new International harmony.
The basic approach of the Institution towards education is based upon the idea that life has a Divine purpose and that one of the most important tasks of education is to lead the student to discover for himself the aim of life in general and specific role that he himself has to play in life. The approach is therefore not merely academic but dynamic integral. Even academic teaching consists of a deliberate or handles so as to build up knowledge. The result is that knowledge is not so much sought to be imparted to student as opportunities and material are presented to him in such a way as to stimulate him to an inner activity by which the real knowledge can be evoked from them.
According to the educational philosophy of the Centre the child is a soul with a body, life-energy and mind to be harmoniously and integrally developed. The educational system is therefore so organized as to secure:
The fullest possible development of the physique;
A fruitful channelisation of the life-energy in pursuits that contribute to the growth of the personality;
The requisite help, through a powerful spiritual atmosphere, for the soul to come forward and gradually begin to govern the rest of the being.
Thus it may be noted that the aim of the education as followed at the Centre is not prepare the individual student to “Succeed” in life and society but to increase his perfectibility to the utmost.
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