Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c22.35

c22.35

**Qualifications of a Teacher.** The duties of the teacher point to the qualifications required of him. Without these a monk was not entitled "to give a *nissaya*" or "ordain a novice". These are exhaustively enumerated [*Mahāvagga*, i, 36]. He must be well up "in what belongs to moral practices, self-concentration, wisdom, emancipation, and the knowledge and insight thereto"; must be "able to help others to full perfection" in these; must be "believing ('not guilty of heresy'), modest, fearful of sinning, strenuous, of ready memory, not guilty of transgressions in morals or conduct, not uneducated or foolish"; and must be "able to train a pupil in the precepts of proper conduct, to educate him in the elements of morality, to instruct him in what pertains to the Dhamma, to instruct him in what pertains to the Vinaya, to discuss or to make another discuss according to the Dhamma a false doctrine that might arise"; and so forth [ib.].