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Relevance of Ancient Education
System in the present scenario.

The Indian education system has been extreme-
ly strong from the ancient period, especially
the Gurukula system where the students spent
their early years of learning with their Guru. D. APARNA
The learning would happen one on one, it was Principal
tailor made which we in the present day name CRPF Public School, Rnagareddy
as the IEP- Individualised Educational plan- 21st century Life skills
ning. Problem Solving ability
There was holistic education which considered Decision making
all the aspects of learning. The ‘sishya’ - the Value education
student was exposed to everything that mat- And such other things were a part of the
tered in the society. comprehensive learning at the Guruku-
There was equal importance given to peer la.
learning and teaching, recitation, memorisa- But today we name them separately and
tion, recall, application, analysis, synthesis and teach each concept.
creation. All we can say is Bloom’s taxonomy Art integrated learning
that we apply in the process of teaching and Sports integrated learning
learning today, was already being implemented Story telling as pedagogy
in the ancient times in our country. Toy based education…..
There was equity and inclusivity in educating are the names we hear today to be in-
the students and that’s what we call as heteroge- corporated in our curriculum and one
nous classroom in today’s education system. should not be astonished to know that
Equal opportunity was given to the students these were an integral part of education
and extra learning and care was also provided system which was imparted in the Gu-
to the gifted as well as to the needy students. rukula system.
Mode of transfer of knowledge of highest level Not only this , if we carefully examine,
was through practical education ie life lessons. we can understand that the knowledge
Value education was also given its due impor- of all existence - the spiritual knowledge
tance without even knowing that it was being was also imparted effectively. One was
taught in the process of learning. aware of the purpose of existence on
this terra. Every learning was multidis-
What we see today in this modern generation is ciplinary, meaningful and child centric.
that the students are made to master the skills All that we now propagate and try to in-
of earning a living which is a part of life, how- corporate in our curriculum has already
ever what the ancient education system taught been followed for years in our country.
was to master life itself. As the generations pass by, we see that
To summarise I would like to put forth that the the past practises are most reliable even
education system and the mode of education in in today’s world. Respecting the ancient
ancient India was extremely complex and high- Gurukula system, the culture and tradi-
ly developed than the education system which tions of our country is what is the need
is being developed now to earn a living today. of the hour.