This PPT is Created to give deep understanding about Shri Aurobindo, his educational thought, Educational Philosophy, vision on Education and the concept of Integral Education, Book and So On.

1. SHRI AUROBINDO
AND
INTEGRAL EDUCATION
BY
MONOJIT GOPE

2. INTRODUCTION
Sri Aurobindo Ghosh a famous sage, poet, patriot, philosopher and an educationist, is known by the name
Aurobindo. He was born on August 15, 1872 in Kolkata. The word Aurobindo mean Lotus in Sanskrit. His
father Dr. Krishna Dhan Ghosh. He got education in London and Cambridge and he became master in
English, Greek and Latin. He passed the Indian Civil Service Examination in 1890. He was principal of
Bengal National College. He launched the journals Vande Matram, karma Yogi, Dharm and the Bengal daily
Yugantar to Propagate his revolutionary ideas and arouse intense feeling of nationalism among people of
India. He Spent his retired life at his ashram in Pondicherry for penance of Spiritual Advancement.
Aurobindo propounded his major philosophy and published it in Arya a new Journal in English from 1914 to
1921. Aurobindo the great saint passed away on December 5th, 1950.

3. BASIC PRINCIPLES OFAUROBINDO’S EDUCATION
1. Education should be Child Centred.
2. Education should be related to the life of the child.
3. Education should be according to the mental aptitudes and psychological needs of the child.
4. Education should be imparted through the medium of mother tongue.
5. Education should bring out the latent powers of the child.
6. Education should develop consciousness.
7. Education should train the sense of the child.
8. Religious education should be a part of education to prevent corruption in the country.

4. AIMS OF EDUCATION
1. Acquire Knowledge.
2. Physical purity.
3. Training of sense.
4. Develop logical faculty.
5. Mental development.
6. Development of Morality.
7. Development of Conscience.
8. Spiritual Development.
9. Self-Realisation.
10. Development of potentialities.

5. CURRICULUM AND AUROBINDO
1. Curriculum should include all subjects and activities which promote mental and spiritual development of the child.
2. The subject of curriculum should be able to motivate the child to learn.
3. Mother tongue, English, French, National History, Arts, Painting, Biology, Health Education and Social Studies.
4. Vocational Education.
5. Physical Education.
6. Psychic and Spiritual Education.
7. International Education.
8. Moral and Vital Education.

6. METHOD OF TEACHING AND AUROBINDO
1. Freedom to Child.
2. Love and Sympathy for the Child.
3. Mother Tongue.
4. Child Centred Education.
5. Self Experience.
6. Learning by doing.
7. Group learning or cooperative learning.
8. Education according to 3 A's (Age, Ability and Aptitude )

7. CONTRIBUTION OFAUROBINDO TO EDUCATION
1. National System of education.
2. Child-centred education.
3. Moral Education.
4. Religious Education.
5. Physical Education.
6. Education of Yoga.
7. Education of Mind.
8. International Education.
9. Comprehensive Education.
10. Education through practical experiences.

8. AUROBINDO AND INTEGRAL EDUCATION
Integral education is that in which the human body, mind and intellect are combined
together to form a magnificent machine. We can call it a machine for want of a better word
and it is superior to any other equipment built by man. According to Aurobindo, ‘‘integral
education is that which helps to bring out full advantage, makes ready for the full purpose of
life and scope of all that is in the individual man, which at the same time helps him to enter
into his right relation with life, mind and soul of the people to which he belongs and with the
great total life, mind and soul of humanity of which he himself is a unit and his people or
nation, a separate and inseparable member.’’

9. CHIEF POINTS OF INTEGRAL EDUCATION
1. Strengthening body and mind.
2. Five principal aspects of integral education.
3. Four major aspects of truth.
4. The vehicles of love, knowledge, power and beauty.
5. Education of physical being (Tapasya of beauty).
6. Education of Vital being (Tapasya of power).
7. Education of mental being (Tapasya of knowledge).
8. Education of psychic being.

10. TWO FOLD BASES OF INTEGRAL EDUCATION
1. Individuality in one whole.
2. Humanity is one.

11. INDIVIDUALITY IN ONE WHOLE.
1. Harmonious development.
2. Socio-economic-politico integration.
3. Different aspects of self but self in one.
4. No concentration on academic perfection alone.

12. OBJECTIVE OF INTEGRAL EDUCATION
1. Recovery of old spiritual knowledge.
2. New forms of philosophy and literature.
3. Synthesis of a spiritualised society.

13. STAGES OF INTEGRAL EDUCATION
There are five stages in the integral education related to the principal activities of the human beings.
1. Physical Education.
2. Vital Education.
3. Mental Education.
4. Psychic Education.
5. Spiritual Education.

14. MEASURES FOR ACHIEVING THE ENDS OF INTEGRAL EDUCATION
1. Role of teacher in integral education.
2. Discipline in integral education.
3. Moral training in integral education.
4. Faith in the potentialities of child in integral education.
5. Physical education in integral education.
6. Principles of teaching in integral education.
7. Curriculum in integral education.

15. BOOKS OF SHRI AUROBINDO
1. Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol.
2. The Life Divine.
3. Synthesis of Yoga.
4. The Psychic Being.
5. The Mother.
6. Essays on the Gita.
7. The hour of God.
8. The Secret of the Veda.

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