Education in Ancient India c4.8

c4.8

Education a serious Proposition: Though ancient Indians held that all should normally receive the benefits of education, they have also laid down that persons who were morally and intellectually unfit to receive it should be excluded from its benefit (*Nirukta*, II. 4); this was a necessary precaution to avoid waste. They further point out that real scholarship cannot be obtained by dilettanish or perfunctory studies; impatience is as great an enemy of learning as self-complaceney¹. The rich and the poor have both to submit to stern discipline in order to become learned. Long continued and laborious preparation is necessary to aquire real grounding and efficiency in a subject. One who is lazy or anxious to dabble in several matters, or one who wants to have a merry time during his school and college days, cannot become a good scholar¹.