Role of teacher during Vedic period:- During the Vedic period, the Gurukul method prevailed in which the students lived in the house of the Guru. The process of education passed through three stages of comprehension, Meditation, & memory. The Gurukuls were the centres of education in which education was imparted only by individuals of characters & ability. The students remained with his Guru for 12 years. Teachers laid stress on the integral development of the individuals personality. Every student was required while residing in the gurukul to serve his teachers compulsorily. Teacher was a very respectable person who had qualities of head, & hand. Any violation of Gurus instruction was regarded as a sin & subject to stern punishment. The student has to bear the responsibility of feeding both himself & his teacher D.R Altekar had said that a relation between a student teacher was a direct one. It did not function through an institution. The duties of the teacher including teaching, making arrangements for the boarding & hodging of the students. Man has started that the prime teachers prime task & moral duty was to discharge his obligations towards his students. He must not only treat the students as his own child, he must also impart of him true & complete knowledge without concealing any knowledge from him. Conclusion:- Education system in the Vedic era was of the height & comprehensive. It was fully capable of development of physical & intellectual & character development, development of civis, social, moral & spiritual values, social efficiency & happiness, preservation & spread of culture, infusion of piety, & religiousness & development of best type of personality.
Posted on: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:03:31 +0000
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