Sri Aurobindo International Institute of Educational Research (SAIIER) - Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education Pondicherry

also the spirit of courage and heroism coupled with vastness of the spectrum of knowledge and practical ability to fathom into the depths of self-knowledge and to scale heights of spiritual domains of existence. Original experiments are being carried out at this Centre and both theoretical and practical knowledge is gained through these experiments which have thrown light on how the present book-oriented, lecture-oriented and examination-oriented system can be replaced by a system that promotes true knowledge and mature wisdom. This Centre has made available to the world of pedagogy some of the most precious results of experimentations on the utility and limitations of lectures as means of transmission, utility and limitations of curricula as a framework of educational process, and utility and limitations of examination system as a process of evaluation.

The literature that has been produced by this Centre in the field of education is being studied all over the world by educationists and teachers as also by counsellors and educational advisors. This literature has also inspired the application of concept of integral education, and even the national policy on education (1986) has adopted the goal of integral development of personality as one of the central aims of education in the country. The system of sports at this Centre is being emulated in a number of schools in the country, and the basic ideas of physical education that have been developed at this Centre are being increasingly adopted in the country’s system of education. Stories and dramas which have been used at this Centre for providing value-oriented education have also become widespread in the country. The idea has become widespread that education should respect the child’s potentialities and that it should allow freedom to children in their growth. That education should aim at the uncovering of deeper resources in the child’s inmost soul has during the last twenty-five years come to be reflected in the writings of eminent authors on education and even in UNESCO’s Report, “Learning To Be”, and “Learning: Treasure Within”.