Rabindranath Tagore is remembered today chiefly as a poet, and his fame as a poet has often eclipsed his great contributions to other fields of literature and life -- especially education. Tagore pondered deeply on the fundamental problems of education -- aims, curriculum, method, discipline, values and medium -- and wrote and experimented on them freely and extensively. Tagore is perhaps the only literary genius in contemporary history who devoted a major part of his life to thinking about education and creating an educational institution of international significance. Also, the institution he created at Santiniketan proved to be the most global and sustainable among the progressive educational institutions launched by individual thinkers such as Froebel and Russell.This edition revives a classic work, the first comprehensive, full-length account of Tagore's educational thought and activity, commemorating his 150th birth anniversary. It presents a detailed chronological surv