Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c6.s3.31

c6.s3.31

We may now have an idea of the working of the school as a whole. Its physical surroundings away from centres of population gives to its students opportunities for contact with Nature and for solitude. Urban life and human society wean away man's affections from the phenomena of Nature. The individual becomes in this way wholly dependent upon the social group; he feels himself gradually as a mere limb of the Great Society. One way of counteracting this sense of dependence, and of poverty of spirit, is to place Man in the world of Nature, and give scope to the growth of an emotive relation between Man and his milieu. He can break away from his social habits and reshape them. Alone in the woods or pastures, he gets emotive responses in the form of fear, wonder, or joy which reawaken in him the consciousness of self which he loses in the crowd of the city. For emotional tension brings in its wake the feeling of self-hood.