Socrates in the Classroom: Examining Chitta Ranjan Das’s Examination of Mainstream Education
摘要
Mainstream Education is a massive failure in terms of moral and spiritual bankruptcy it fosters or fails to counter. Students fail in the only examination that really matters—of life and we find them mostly heartless and indifferent to larger moral and spiritual dimensions of personal and community life. Demotivated or without passion for great ideals, they are consumed by petty self-centric projects. Chitta Ranjan was quite alert to these problems and, building on Aurobindo, Gandhi and others, sought to create alternative educational spaces. His approach may well be called School of Life-centric approach that is premised on the primacy of the Sacred. Let us note a few key features of his critique.