Professor Norman C. Dowsett was born on the 9th
October, 1908, at Richmond, Surrey, England. He was educated in England, France,
Spain and Germany.
At the beginning of the Second
World War, he joined the Royal Air Force, came to India, and was commissioned as
an officer in Air Intelligence.
In 1942, he met Sri Aurobindo in
Pondicherry and three years later became a permanent member of his Ashram, whose
charge was also shared by the Mahayogi’s spiritual companion, The Mother.
Norman Dowsett participated in
the experiment of the Free Progress Education carried out in the Sri Aurobindo
International Centre of Education where he taught for 25 years.
In 1970, The Mother gave him the
task to start the education in the newly founded international township of
Auroville.
In 1971, he took the
directorship of the Department of Educational Research and Development of the
Sri Aurobindo Society, where he is pursuing his research in education with a
multinational team.
A prolific writer and poet, he
is also the author of a Manifesto laying the bases of an ‘Academy of Future Man’
and the co-editor of an ‘Integral Education Series’ Review in Education.
Dr. Sitaram Jayaswal, M.A., M. Ed (Harvard), Ph.D.
(Michigan), Reader in Education, Lucknow University.
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