Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c9.25

c9.25

**Method of Learning according to capacity.** When highest knowledge was thus built up by these Seers and revealed and stored up in the hymns, there were necessarily evolved the methods by which such knowledge could be acquired, conserved, and transmitted to posterity. Thus every Ṛishi was a teacher who would start by imparting to his son the texts of the knowledge he had personally acquired and such texts would be the special property of his family. Each such family of Ṛishis was thus functioning like a Vedic school admitting pupils for instruction in the literature or texts in its possession. The relations between teacher and taught are well established in the Rigveda. The methods of education naturally varied with the capacities of pupils. Self-realization by means of *tapas* would be for the few.