Knowledge is very fascinating
1 it gives
meaning to life,
2 it creates a desire and an ability to
live.
Without knowledge, one ceases to exist. Therefore the
indian system of education before the advent of the Britishers was
a combination of disciplinary education, free education and
inbuilt education from the very family where one was born.
Certaiinly the student would go to the teacher
to learn, but his learning would not stop there, he would continue to learn
beautiful lessons of life beyond the teacher and the school and keep
receiving life changing experiences throughout his life.
Kaushika Brahamana was a great student of the vedas,
he learnt vedas under his teacher and he developed a great hunger to
learn more and more, he did not take to the responsibility of life after being
a formal student.
His approach to life changed while facing the normal
interactions of daily routine.
He met a woman who was extremely sensitive to
her service to family and who had the ability to tell the Brahman how he had
burned a bird with a mere glance.
She sent Kaushika Brahaman to a butcher to
discover the deeper mysteries of life. Kaushika Brahman being eager to
learn did not mind going to a butcher .
A Brahman who in the normal
course of life would not take knowledge from a butcher, but knowing
the nature of knowledge Kaushika Brahaman broke all conventional
understanding and learned many things from a butcher and this changed the
course of his life.
Therefore indian morality says, find a good girl
wherever she comes from for marriage, gold from filth and knowledge from
anywhere it comes.
Therefore
before the Britishers came to India there was more studying in India than the
great centre of learning? Surprised?. This is the reality of knowledge
......
know what you had not known.
Dharmapala
one of the student of Gandhi, did lot of research in indigenous education in
India, he found most surprising things.
One can refer this information in his book. “The Beautiful Tree.”
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