Ancient Indian Education: An Inquiry into its Origin, Development, and Ideals c4.86

c4.86

The pupil was under certain obligations towards the teacher. In the first place, he was to remain with the teacher so long as his course lasted, and not to dwell with anybody else.¹ From the *Upanishads* one gets the impression that students sometimes wandered from teacher to teacher, but if that were so it must either have been irregular, or else was found to be attended with abuses, and afterwards restricted.