Education in Ancient India c4.2

c4.2

Education for all—Education a serious proposition and marriage incompatible with it—Education to begin in childhood and not to stop with graduation—Student's cooperation important—Rod to be used very sparingly—Importance of habits, routine, association and imitation—The Gurukula system—The role and importance of the family—Various theories about Nature vs, Nurture—Influence of the caste system—The system once flexible, Brahmanas and non-Brahmanas teaching each others' subjects—Its influence on the curriculum of Brahmanas, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras in later times—Caste system and Buddhism.