ABSTRACT
In 1916, Mahatma Gandhi made the following comment on the state of education in India: Despite this infatuation for education, hardly anyone pauses to consider what education really is, whether the education we have so far received has done us any good, or good commensurate with the effort put in. The effect of the education on the Hindoos is prodigious. No Hindoo who has received an English education ever remains sincerely attached to his religion. Rabindranath Tagore’s work on education had its seeds in his own experience as a school-going child. With the firm realisation that good education can be imparted in an essentially simple environment, Tagore started his school at Santiniketan in 1901. Tagore’s educational approach was to undo the harm the British Raj educational system had done.
