Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c9.64

c9.64

These verses thus point to the following features of the educational system, viz. (1) the home of the teacher as the school where the pupil had to live with him and was fed by him; (2) the admission of a pupil on the ground of his moral fitness; (3) the discipline of *brahmacharya* imposed upon the pupil; (4) the duty of the pupil to honour the teacher like his father or mother by word, thought, and deed; and (5) the expulsion of a pupil who does not observe this duty.