Education in Ancient India c13.s1.1

c13.s1.1

Introduction: We shall now proceed to point out the main defects and limitations of the educational system along with their causes. The period-wise survey of the educational system, which was taken in the second section of the last chapter, must have already indicated to the reader what these defects were and how most of them arose during the latter half of the first millennium A. D. We shall discuss them in greater details now. Attention will also be drawn to some other limitations of the system, which were more or less common to almost all systems of education in ancient times and for which, therefore, the ancient Indian system alone cannot be blamed.