Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c12.s6.47

c12.s6.47

"Thus, as far back as we know anything of India, we find that the years which we in modern times spend at school and at university were spent by the sons of ancient India in learning, from the mouth of a teacher, their sacred literature. Thus the Vedic succession was never broken—for this oral learning and teaching came to be one of the compulsory religious duties of the people, one of the great *yajñas* or sacrifices."