Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c25.17

c25.17

**Discussion as a Method of Education.** The Buddhist system of education, like the Brahmanical, lays equal stress upon the efficacy of the method of debate and discussion in Education. In fact Buddhism, being more proselytizing than Vedism or Brahminism, was more interested in the cultivation by its leaders and votaries of the powers of debate by which it could spread and win converts from other religions. The Buudna’s whole career of forty-five years of ministry was practically a continuous