City in a mouth hugli. A city of poets

you are: the City in a mouth hugli

Calcutta name a city of poets. The advanced art workers of Bengal awoke with the creativity

Consciousness of weights, attached them to the advanced public ideals, called them on overcoming of backward feudal, exclusive and religious traditions, called for struggle for the best future.

Here there passed a life, creativity and public work of the great son of the Bengalese earth, the outstanding artist of a word, the educator and democrat Rabindranata Tagore. Its creative and public work in huge degree promoted awakening in weights of national consciousness, feeling of civilisation. Understanding of necessity and requirement to enter on a struggle way for clearing of the native land of foreign oppression. And knowingly its song ' Soul of the people ' became a national hymn of Republic of India, and a song ' My gold Bengal ' - a hymn of National Republic Bangladesh.

Tagore always aspired to embody The ideals in practical actions. He dreamt to reform, in particular, an education system, to refuse in teaching a formalism, from state discipline, from everything, that holds down imagination, the initiative of the child, the young man that suppresses in it natural aspiration to freedom and display of its better qualities. In 1901 it has undertaken courageous experiment, having created in a patrimonial estate in SHantiniketone such school of the dream. He has developed programs for it, itself in it taught. At school democratic usages operated. Children chose the heads, appointed to itself punishments for offences, together with school council watched observance of the schedule entered by it. The training system has been constructed so that to cause in children a keen interest to native history and the literature, to the exact sciences. Education in children of the creative beginning was promoted by school performances, plays for which were written by Tagore.