Bengali mystic and artist, Rabindranath Tagore was a great poet, philosopher, music composer and a leader of Brahma Samaj who became a prominent voice of Indian heritage . Best known for his poems and short stories, essays, novel articles, etc., Tagore contributed extensively to Bengali literature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and created his masterpieces such as Ghare-Baire , Yogayog, Sandhya Sangeet, Naibedya, Gitanjali and Gitimalya. As a Bengali mathematician, he reimagined the literature and music of his region and became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for “Gitanjali,” the book of poems. As a humanist, universalist, internationalist and vehement anti-nationalist, he condemned British rule and advocated independence from Britain. He wrote articles, songs and poems that electrified the independence movement, without directly participating in it. He is the only one to have written the national anthems of two countries. Two famous songs composed by him, Amar Sonar Bangla and Jana Gana Mana, became the national anthems of Bangladesh and India respectively after their independence. Apart from this, the poet's greatest legacy to his country is the world-renowned institution known as 'Vishwa-Bharti University'. Life Story of Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore, the first noble laureate of Asia, was born on May 7, 1861 in Jorasanko, in the heart of Calcutta. His family was famous for its progressive socio-religious and cultural innovations during the 19th Bengal Renaissance. He was the fourteenth and youngest son of Maharishi Debendranath Tagore and Sarda Devi and grandson of Dwarkanath Tagore. His grandfather Dwarkanath was a religious and social reformer and worked incessantly for ...... middle of paper ...... the highest level which not only imparts information and knowledge to us but also promotes love and following the feelings between us and the living beings of the world”. True education brings self-realization and enlightenment. It seeks to reveal all that is good and noble for the individual. It is a comprehensive development of human potential to achieve a full life. He believed that education should help an individual achieve complete manhood, so that all his powers could be fully developed for his own individual perfection and that of the society into which he was born. The highest mission of education is to help realize the inner principle of the unity of all knowledge and activities of the social and spiritual being. Tagore's concept of ideal education covers the objectives of education, ideal atmosphere for education, curriculum, teacher and method..