The Concept of Life Oriented Education System

Abstract

Pandurang Athvale is an activist philosopher of the modern time. He was born on 19th October at Roha Village of Raygadh district in Maharashtra and passed away at October 25, 2003 at Mumbai in Maharashtra. He was known as a social reformer, a philosopher, a thinker, an economist, and an educationalist. His whole life was like one man army, with his one hand activation, he had spread Swadhyaya in the world. He had attended World Religious Congress at Shimizu city in Japan on October 1954, after the results of II world war. He had given applied thoughts keeping in mind unto the last man. His whole life was for human being, the Swadhyaya Stream and devotion towards God.
He had done many experiments like, Yogeshwarkrishi, Shridarshanam, Matsyagandha, Hiramandir, Vriksha Mandir, Loknath Amrutalyam etc. Through his experiments he was known as an activist philosopher in the world. He honored by Roman Magsaysay Award in 1996 for community leadership, John Templeton prize, for progress in religion, originality, effectiveness, creativity and spirituality in 1997 and many other prizes and awards are given to him for his activated thoughts. After being honored by Templeton Prize, he was known as a "hope of humanity" with his Swadhyaya Stream in the world.