Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c30.12

c30.12

**Oral Method of Teaching.** Instruction was imparted orally and characterized by much earnestness and painstaking labour on the part of the teacher. The pedagogic method followed was that of trying to quicken and rouse the latent powers of thinking in the student and lead him on to conclusions. The methods of teaching are thus described: "These teachers explain the general meaning and teach them the minutiae; they rouse them to activity and skilfully win them to progress; they instruct the inert and sharpen the dull. When disciples, intelligent and acute, are addicted to idle shirking, the teachers doggedly persevere, repeating instruction until their training is finished."