Indian Education System

Essays

Dharmic Education is not Learning but Realisation

Dharmic Education is not Learning but Realisation

In the Sanatana theory and practice, education was not merely learning but realisation. Literacy was merely one subset of it.

Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee's Vision of an Ideal Indian Education System

Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee's Vision of an Ideal Indian Education System

In the second and concluding part of this series, Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee sets out his vision for a profound and practical education system for India entering the postcolonial period.

Abhyasa and Vairagya as the Foundations of Sanatana Education: Dogmatism and Bigotry as the Outcomes of Biblical Lessons

Abhyasa and Vairagya as the Foundations of Sanatana Education: Dogmatism and Bigotry as the Outcomes of Biblical Lessons

A Sanatana education in its truest sense is primarily a course of training and discipline, and only secondarily a course of teaching. Western religious instruction has only tended to produce fanaticism, bigotry, contempt for other creeds.

Babubhai Jashbhai Patel: The Acharya who Upheld the Values of the Sanatana Educational Tradition

Babubhai Jashbhai Patel: The Acharya who Upheld the Values of the Sanatana Educational Tradition

An anecdote from the life of Babubhai Jashbhai Patel, former Gujarat Chief Minister and Vice Chancellor of the Sardar Patel University

Portraits and Facets of Rootlessness that is the Indian Education System

Portraits and Facets of Rootlessness that is the Indian Education System

If the performance of key ministries in the Narendra Modi government is evaluated beginning with the worst, the Human Resources Development ministry tops the charts. If it is some consolation, one must laud HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar for coming out in the open and admitting that “not a single history