Salient features of vedic period ?
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2 The practical aspect of life was not lost of sight. Side by side with art,
literature, and philosophy students were getting working knowledge in
agriculture and other vocations of life
3 . To serve the preceptor was considered as the sacred duty by the pupils.Being a residential pupil he was looking to the comforts of the Guru. In thought, speech development of Education in India and deed he pledged devotion to his Guru. The pupil worshipped the Guru as his own father or God.
In the Vedic period.Education is regarded as the source of light. The main features of Vedic education can be as follows:
1.Knowledge, the Third Eye
Education is knowledge. It is man’s third eye. This means that knowledge opens man’s inner eye, flooding him with spiritual and divine light.
2. In the Vedic period, education had an idealistic form, in which the teachers laid stress upon worship of God, religiousness, spirituality, formation of character, development of personality,development of culture, nation and society.
3.The Method of Education
During the Vedic period, the Gurukul method prevailed, in which the student lived in the house of the Guru, instead of living with his parents. Along with his colleagues, he led a celibate life and obtained education in the house of the Guru.The Gurukuls were the centres of education, in which education was imparted only by individuals of character and ability. The student remained with his Guru for 12 years. There were parishads or committees to satisfy the student’s thirst for knowledge.
Every student was required to observe celibacy in his specific path of life. Purity of conduct was regarded as of supreme importance. Only the unmarried could become students in a Gurukul.
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