Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c12.s6.53

c12.s6.53

**Teacher's Home as School.** Fourthly, the system of oral tradition rested upon a continuous personal connection between the teacher and the taught which could be cultivated only in the home. The domestic system of education was the inevitable consequence of the particular pedagogic methods employed. Memorizing a vast quantity of texts with absolute accuracy in the pronunciation of every accent and word thereof implied the ready and constant supervision on the part of the teacher such as can be exercised only in the teacher's home upon pupils who would live there at all hours. This result could not be achieved under a system of temporary connection for a few hours only between the teacher and the taught as in modern schools and colleges. Thus the ancient educational arrangements insisting on the residence of the pupil in the home of his teacher were demanded by the very system of rote-learning in vogue in the country.