Question

C. Give short answers for the following questions.
1. Describe education in pre-British times.
2 but did he study ancient​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. Free public education was common in New England but rare in the South, where most education took place at home with family members or tutors. In the 1800s, Horace Mann of Massachusetts led the common-school movement, which advocated for local property taxes financing public schools.

Answer 2

Before the arrival of the British, the system of education in India was very flexible.

There were ‘pathshalas’ and ‘madrassas’ in which a few students were taught by their teacher.

There were no prescribed textbook.

All teaching was imparted orally, generally at the house of the teacher.

There was no fixed curriculum and the teacher taught whatever he deemed best for his students.

Sanskrit, Persian and mathematics were the most popular subjects.

Science and geography were not taught.

There was also no system of examinations.

The teacher had a lot of freedom quite unlike the system prevalent today.