The University of Nalanda c7.9

c7.9

But a University, besides this, has definite views with regard to the students it admits to its portals and also with regard to the education it imparts. As regards the former, it admitted only those students who possessed the requisite qualifications and no other. As to the latter, it sought to give the right type of education, which is defined by Newman as one that acts upon our mental nature and the formation of character. "It is," says he, "something individual and permanent, and is commonly spoken of in connection with religion and virtue."¹ The aim of education, thus, was the spiritual advancement of the student, and not any material gain—"some art, or business, or profession or work as resulting from it and as its complete and real end."²