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Tagore established Shantiniketan with classes in open spaces specifically to achieve what?
AFree children from the burden of formal education
BReduce the cost of building classrooms
CAllow more students to attend simultaneously
DReduce school staff requirements
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Free children from the burden of formal education
1. The Tagore biography explains why Shantiniketan was founded.
2. Tagore found the schools offering formal education 'suffocating'.
3. He had a passion 'to help children out of the burden of formal education'.
4. Hence he established the innovative open-air Shantiniketan.
_Source: Maharashtra Balbharati Std XII Education, Ch 1 "Indian Educational Thinkers", §1.1 ¶2_
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