A REVISIT TO ANCIENT INDIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM

Abstract

Indian Education system has witnessed a remarkable cultural transmission ranging from the Vedic period to the present age of information explosion and knowledge assimilation. So far as the gradual evaluation of ancient Indian Education system is concerned, we must have to retrace its origin right from the Vedic age. In the Vedic age, a consistent effort was made to systematic educational context. When we call education a ‘system’ it underlines that that there are specific ‘aims’ for which the particular type of education is intended; there are motivated learners; there are respectful and committed teachers; there are students-friendly teaching methodologies and ultimately a meaningful and learner-centric evaluation mechanism. Keeping in mind all these essential parameters associated with any sort of learning mechanism, we may safely ascertain that Vedic education system possessed its distinctive philosophy and unique orientation. Precisely for this reason, the Vedic system of education is continuously being revisited by modern thinkers and critical educationists with a view to exploring new tenets and vitas of this pristine educational era. Let us have a look on the aims, curriculum, institutions of learning, the learners and the teachers of the Vedic system of education. These components of the educational system are by and large interrelated and interdependent.