Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c6.s3.4

c6.s3.4

India has believed in the domestic system in both Industry and Education, and not in the mechanical methods of large production in institutions and factories turning out standardized articles. Artistic work is the product of human skill and not of machine. The making of man depends on the human factor. It depends on individual attention and treatment to be given by the teacher. Here the personal touch, the living relationship between the pupil and teacher make education. The pupil belongs to the teacher and not to an institution or the abstraction called the school. A modern school teaches pupils by "classes", and not as individuals with their differences. Is it possible to think of a common treatment of patients each of whom has his own ailment? While it cannot be applied to the diseases of the body that can be visualized, how can it be applied in handling invisible, intangible, and sometimes intractable material, different minds and moral conditions?¹ Certainly, Education is the last subject to be "mechanized" even in a modern socialist State.