Question

Write briefly about the achievements of the Later Vedic Aryans in the sphere of
education

Answer 1

Answer:

The enormous amount of literature produced during the later-Vedic period suggests that the people had developed a high intellectual standard. It also suggests that they had a well- planned system of education. A boy was initiated into the life of a student through the Upanayana ceremony.

He lived at the residence of his teacher till he completed his education. During his stay there he had to study as well as serve his teacher. He gathered fuel, tended cows, and begged alms for his guru. As a student he had to lead a very chaste life and develop his moral faculties