Question

Educational System in India in120 words.

Answer 1

The modern education system that we find in India today came with Britishers. They were accompanied by Christian missionaries who established schools to impart secular education to the Indian children but also to convert them to Christianity.

If we look into the early history of Indian (Hindu) society, we find that in ancient India education was modelled on the gurukula system in which emphasis was placed on the direct relationship between the guru (teacher) and the sisya (pupil).

This system of education laid emphasis on austere life and concentrated on the teaching of Vedic literature. It was mainly devoted to the teaching of theology, philosophy and philology. Education was all compre­hensive spreading from philosophy and spirituality to the teaching of cannons of art of day-to-day life.



Education was used to be given on the varna basis. The Sudras and women both were excluded from the right to education. Vocational trainings, if any, were used to be given by old members of the family and community.

In the medieval (Muslim) period, it was the ‘madarsa’ system which ruled the educational scene. The schools (madarsas and pathsalas) were conducted almost exclusively by maulvis for Muslim students and by Brahmin priests for Hindu students.

There was really no change in the outlook of people towards education in this period also because the Muslims, like the Hindus, were tradi­tional in their outlook and laid great emphasis on religions and philosophical education rather than secular education.

Of course, one should not forget that secular education received an impetus even in Western Europe only after the 17th century, and more recently since the 19th century when the idea of scien­tific knowledge emerged.

Answer 2

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