Guidance on Education: Advice to Students and Teachers

In December 1943 the Mother opened a school for the children who had come with their families to settle in the Ashram. The number of students steadily increased and the school eventually grew into the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, with classes ranging from nursery to college level. The Mother asked some of the Ashram sadhaks to become teachers and offered her guidance to both students and teachers to create a centre of education whose aim was to develop all aspects of a student’s personality. She wanted to provide an environment in which students could learn for the sake of knowledge, grow in consciousness and attain self-mastery, and prepare themselves for a higher and better life. This book, which was formerly titled Education (Part Two): Advice to Students and Teachers, contains selections from the Mother’s correspondence and conversations. In them she reveals her keen understanding of how children learn and progress and encourages teachers to develop the powers of psychological understanding that will help them address the needs of each individual student.