Educational Heritage of India

Essays

The Ideal Guru and the Ideal Shishya in the Medieval Tamil Desham

The Ideal Guru and the Ideal Shishya in the Medieval Tamil Desham

Using a series of superb analogies, the medieval Tamil educationist Pavanandi exposits the qualifications of a good teacher and a good pupil and vice versa. These prescriptions are not only timeless but have universal value and applicability.

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Lessons from Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s Profound Essay on Ancient Indian Education

Lessons from Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s Profound Essay on Ancient Indian Education

As India stood on the threshold of attaining political independence, Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee authored a brilliant paper encapsulating the history of Indian education and the lessons it holds for us today. The first part of a highly informative series.

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The Golisri Sanskrit School of Calcutta: The Unmourned Victim of William Bentinck and Macaulay

The Golisri Sanskrit School of Calcutta: The Unmourned Victim of William Bentinck and Macaulay

The tragic story of the Golisri Sanskrit School of Calcutta which was obliterated forever by the educational policy of William Bentinck and Macaulay

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Do we Want a Brave New India of Uniformly Literate Mechanics?

Do we Want a Brave New India of Uniformly Literate Mechanics?

A commentary on our approach to education using Ananda Coomaraswamy's classic essay on the subject

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Governmentalizing Indian Education and Creating Generations of Cultural Pariahs

Governmentalizing Indian Education and Creating Generations of Cultural Pariahs

Ananda Coomaraswamy's farsighted and incisive observations of the ruin caused by British colonial education system

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What the Masters Said: Rescue Indian Education Before it is too Late

What the Masters Said: Rescue Indian Education Before it is too Late

The first of a two-part series delineating the wisdom, diagnosis and solutions that our past masters and savants like Swami Vivekananda, Ananda Coomaraswamy and R.K. Mookerji offered about the urgent problem of education in India

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