Moral and Ethical Development in the Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo: Relevance for Modern Education.

Abstract: Sri Aurobindo was an eastern educationalist, ideal philosopher and prolific thinker. He innovated moral and ethical development in education system. It is difficult to summarize Sri Aurobindo’s moral and ethical development in education. I would like to discuss in this research article about Sri Aurobindo’s moral and ethical development in education in the real-world contexts. Its main aim is to build moral and ethical values of the learners. The investigator has utilized qualitative research methodology for to investigate secondary sources such as online documents, online journals, books, newspapers and internet sources. This research article explores Sri Aurobindo’s moral and ethical development regarding with NEP-2020 themes. According to him, education should be along with the need of our modern complex life. This research article relates the significance of Sri Aurobindo’s moral and ethical development with different components. These components are holistic development, spiritual evolution, values and ethics, curriculum design, global perspective and role of example etc. Sri Aurobindo’s educational philosophy is very much relevance if institutions, teachers, stuffs and stakeholders accurately apply in education. But everywhere we see that there is always a gap of practical understanding and application of theoretical knowledge in real-world contexts. It is a contemporary problem. We should concern for to find out the solution of this problem. Otherwise, we won’t get good educators, ideal teachers and ideal citizens for present and future generations. All of us have to be conscious about this contemporary problem. Further research is need to explore practical application in Sri Aurobindo’s moral and ethical development in education.