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educational method in sangam age
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Mathematics and language were considered the two eyes of the learned in Sangam age. Astronomy being the summation of a host of other sciences, the Sangam astronomy certainly indicates the existence of science education in those days. The description of many cities in the Sangam literature shows that there existed a developed engineering and architectural skill Though notions like universal education and universal literacy are essentially modern, the ancient Tamils knew the need of certain basic education, as different from scholarship, for getting on well with others. Social education aimed at the inculcation of good manners and social etiquette and the home was the best training ground for these. Thus, education was secular and it was not peculiar preserve of any particular caste or community".

'The Tamil society of the Sangam age was an advanced and civilized society, which had reached great heights in commercial prosperity and in the field of the fine arts. (N. Subramanian, Sangam Polity, Madurai, 1980, p.337). During this period Tamil learning had developed vastly judged from the number of works extant. However, a study of this society shows that education was not formalized or institutionalized. Teaching does not seem to have developed into a separate or distinct profession. Probably parental upbringing constituted the full education, because education was mostly a training in the hereditary vocation. If so, learning was not separated from doing and the family was an agency of education. Besides this, the elders in the immediate social environment also influenced the moral and intellectual growth of the youths. The pattern of education was not merely reading and understanding books, but listening to learned persons.