Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c12.s6.55

c12.s6.55

**Study of One Subject the Rule.** Sixthly, the system had the merit or demerit of being able to produce only specialists, mere masters of one subject. As Max Müller justly remarks, "the ambition to master more than one subject is hardly known in India." We have already referred to the evidence showing how pupils had to go from one teacher to another for instruction in different branches of sacred learning. Generally, a teacher was the master of one particular Veda, and, even of that, he specialized in a particular *śākhā* or recension.