A Confluence of Minds
The Rabindranath Tagore and Patrick Geddes Reader on Education and Environment
Published on 4. December 2020
272 pages
978-1-912387-36-6 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of seminal correspondences between Indian Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore and Scottish polymath Robert Geddes are testimony to a great friendship and an even greater marriage between Eastern and Western schools of thought. This compilation uncovers a confluence of ideas on the environment, science, rural reconstruction and a holistic approach to education that resonates with the lived experiences of its students.
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04/2018
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Content
- Front Cover
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Rabindranath Tagore on Education
- The Vicissitudes of Education (1892)
- The Problem of Education (1906)
- My School (1917)
- The Centre of Indian Culture (1919)
- An Eastern University (1921)
- A Poet's School (1926)
- The Parrot's Training (1918)
- Sriniketan (1924)
- The First Anniversary of Sriniketan (1924)
- Patrick Geddes on Education
- The World Without and the World Within (1905)
- The Fifth Talk from my Outlook Tower: Our City of Thought
- The Education of Two Boys
- The Notation of Life
- Scottish University Needs And Aims
- Rabindranath Tagore on the Environment
- The Religion of the Forest (1922)
- Can Science Be Humanized? (1933)
- The Relation of the Individual to the Universe (1913)
- 'Introduction' to Elmhirst's address, 'The Robbery of the Soil'
- Patrick Geddes on the Environment
- Cities, and the Soils They Grow from
- The Valley Plan of Civilisation
- V: Ways to the Neotechnic City
- Life and its Science
- The Sociology of Autumn
- Letters
- Plays and Poetry
