ABSTRACT

This paper discusses the educational experiment of Rabindranath Tagore and its larger implications for world peace. As violence becomes the new normal amongst the youth of the world, the challenge for societies is to build cultures of peace instead of cultures of violence. In this context, this paper discusses the ideas of Tagore on education, and proposes that his model of education has elements on the basis of which a strong foundation for a new culture of peace can be laid. A study of his ideas throws light on how his education system was meant to restore peace at different levels building relations of love and friendship (maitri) between people. His model of education can help peace-builders in the transformation of conflicts at different levels: peace at the global level (transforming interstate conflicts), peace within society (transforming social conflicts), peace between human beings (transforming interpersonal conflicts), peace with nature (transforming human relationship with the environment) and peace within self (transforming conflict within one’s own self). This paper discusses how Tagore’s education system anticipated contemporary concerns of peace education, and conceived the development of an environment where direct, cultural, and structural violence would recede, giving way to positive peace.

摘要

本文讨论了拉宾德拉纳特·泰戈尔（Rabindranath Tagore）的教育实验及其对世界和平的更大影响。一个小号的暴力成为新的正常世界的青年之中，使社会面临的挑战是建立一个和平而不是暴力文化的文化。在这种情况下，本文讨论了泰戈尔的教育思想，并提出泰戈尔的教育模式具有要素，在此基础上可以为新的和平文化奠定坚实的基础。对他的思想进行的研究揭示了他的教育体系如何在不同层次上恢复和平，建立爱与友谊的关系（maitri）。他的教育模式可以帮助建设和平者在不同层次上转变冲突：全球层面的和平（转变国家间冲突），社会内部的和平（转变社会冲突），人与人之间的和平（转变人际冲突），自然（转变人类与环境的关系）和自我内的和平（转变自身内在的冲突）。本文讨论了泰戈尔的教育系统如何预见当代对和平教育的关注，并构想了直接，文化和结构性暴力将消退的环境的发展，并为积极的和平让路。