Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c28.13

c28.13

**Taxila a Centre of Higher Education.** The students are always spoken of as going to Taxila to "complete" their education and not to begin it. They are invariably sent at the age of sixteen or when they "come of age" [e.g. v, 162, 210]. This shows that Taxila was a seat not of elementary, but higher, education, of colleges or a university as distinguished from schools. Thus the age-limit for admission there was curiously enough the same as is prescribed by modern universities. It was also only the students of a maturer age that could be sent so far away from their homes for the furtherance of their studies.