In the
Visva-Bharati Bulletin, 1928, Rabindranath Tagore wrote:
“The object of
Sriniketan is to bring back life in its completeness into the villages making
them self-reliant and self-respectful, acquainted with the cultural tradition
of their own country and competent to make an efficient use of modern resources
for the improvement of their physical, intellectual and economic conditions.’
The objectives of the mission were:
1. To win the friendship and affection of villagers and cultivators by talking a real interest in all that concerns their lives and welfare, and by making a lively effort to assist them in solving their most pressing problems.
2. To take the problem of the village and the field to the class room for study and discussion and to the experimental farm for solution.
3. To put the students in the way of acquiring practical experience in cultivation, dairy, animal husbandry, poultry keeping, carpentry, and smithing, weaving and tannery; in practical sanitation work; and in the art and spirit of cooperation.
4. To give the students elementary instruction in the science connected with their practical work.
5. To encourage in the staff and students of the department itself a spirit of sincere service and willing sacrifice for the people of the surrounding villages.
6. To train the students to a due sense of their own intrinsic worth, physical and moral and in particular to teach them to do with their own hands everything which a village householder or a cultivator does or should do for a living, if possible, more efficiently.
The objectives of the mission were:
1. To win the friendship and affection of villagers and cultivators by talking a real interest in all that concerns their lives and welfare, and by making a lively effort to assist them in solving their most pressing problems.
2. To take the problem of the village and the field to the class room for study and discussion and to the experimental farm for solution.
3. To put the students in the way of acquiring practical experience in cultivation, dairy, animal husbandry, poultry keeping, carpentry, and smithing, weaving and tannery; in practical sanitation work; and in the art and spirit of cooperation.
4. To give the students elementary instruction in the science connected with their practical work.
5. To encourage in the staff and students of the department itself a spirit of sincere service and willing sacrifice for the people of the surrounding villages.
6. To train the students to a due sense of their own intrinsic worth, physical and moral and in particular to teach them to do with their own hands everything which a village householder or a cultivator does or should do for a living, if possible, more efficiently.
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