Education in Ancient India c9.3

c9.3

Kindergarten Stage: Problems connected with the Kindergarten stage of education did hardly engage the attention of ancient Indian thinkers. This need not surprise us, for in the West too they have been only recently tackled by educationalists. Our educationalists held that education was a serious affair and they were not very enthusiastic about combining it with play and games. They felt that a skilful teacher can make his lesson interesting by taking the help of the story and held that the use of the rhyme was quite sufficient to make uninteresting things like multiplication tables quite attractive to the child. Like ancient thinkers in all other lands, they have not proposed any devices of the kindergarten type to make lessons attractive to the young child.