Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c28.15

c28.15

**Public contributions to Education.** Where students were too poor to be able to pay the teachers' fees in any of the several ways aforesaid, a charitable community often came forward to provide for them a free education. We read of a teacher of "world-wide fame" at Benares, who had in his school 500 young Brahman pupils to teach. The difficulty of maintaining such a school was removed by the generosity of the "Benares folk" who "used to give day by day commons of food to the poor lads and had them taught free" [i, 239].