Education in Ancient India c4.20

c4.20

**Importance of Student’s Cooperation:** Ancient Indians held that education was not a passive or one sided process and that it will be productive of the greatest results only when full and voluntary cooperation is coming forth from students. They must feel the urge to acquire more knowledge; then there would be pleasure in teaching them. If there is no real desire for learning and improvement, it would be useless to waste time and labour over the education of insincere students (Manu, II, 113-4, 191). But what was to be done if a student entrusted to the charge and care of a teacher begins to show a continuous indifference to duty? How was he to be induced to do his work? Was the teacher merely to remonstrate, or was he to inflict physical punishment?