As we know education is very important in our life, it not only enhances our knowledge but also changes the way we live. When people talk about the people of India in the world, then the first thing that comes to their mind is poverty and poor education. According to a citypopulation 2018 report India rank 128 in the world literacy rate table with 74.8% literacy rate.
But do we know that India was the oldest center of education? Most Indians will not know this because we are entangled in everyday life.Some people will not digest this, but in reality we were the center of education in the world.


Vidya-Aarambha and Akshara-Abhyasha is a practice in South Part of India where young children are given information about alphabets and in Bengal, there is a practice called Hatkhori, in which even children are told about alphabets.
Hatekhori practise during sarawati pooja
Once a time there was a mad rush for gaining education in india: student came from china, japan, korea, indonesia, malasiya. It was very to get admission in top indian universities in ancient time. In ancient India education system people curious to know about what is good reasoning and what is bad reasoning so they made rules for it. Can you think that when many civilizations not knew the way to live and eat, there was an education system in our India at that time. There were no distinction between religion and science , they discovered the rules of geometry to make the square pot to do "yagya" . It was religion that led to science at that time of the world.

Nyāya Sūtras :- At that time ,India's education system was depended on the Nyaya Sutras.The Nyaya Sutras is an ancient Indian sanskrit text composed by Akṣapāda Gautama, and the foundational text of the Nyaya school of hindu philosphy.
Its first Formula is -

प्रमाण-प्रमेय-संशय-प्रयोजन-दृष्टान्त-सिद्धान्तावयव-तर्क-निर्णय-वाद-जल्प-वितण्डाहेत्वाभास-च्छल-जाति-निग्रहस्थानानाम्तत्त्वज्ञानात् निःश्रेयसाधिगमः
Its translation in English:- Evidence, theorem, doubt, purpose, parable, theory, logic, judgment, ism, fallacy, deceit, caste and liberation are attained by philosophy.

Can you even guess that at that time people were studying on such a scientific term. yes at that time people were more practical.
At that time, when a student's education was over, his Guru used to send him to visit different part of India to see different types of people.
There were many famous universities at that time but the famous one was Takshshila , Nalanda , shardha peeth ,Kanthaloor shala( which is in kerala). Kanthaloor shala is considered to be the Nalanda of southern part of india at that time. But kanthaloor shala was much more advanced than Nalanda university because it also includes subjects like martial law.
Ancient universities of india
Bhaskaracharya :- Bhaskaracharya was a great mathematician and astrologer of the ancient india. He used to taught in univeristy of ujjaini. The main scripture composed by him is Siddhanta Shiromani which has four parts named Lilavati, Algebra, Grahagnith and Goladhyay. These four parts are related to arithmetic, algebra, mathematics related to the motion of planets and shells respectively. Newton is credited with discovering the gravitational power of the earth (the power to pull matter) in the modern era. But very few people know that Bhaskaracharya has revealed the mystery of gravity many centuries before Newton. Bhaskaracharya has written about the gravity of the Earth in his' Siddhanthiromani 'treatise that' Earth draws celestial objects with a specific force. For this reason celestial bodies fall on the earth '. He also wrote another book called Karankautuhal. He was a well-known mathematician of his time. Allegedly, he was also the chairman of Ujjain's observatory. He is considered the best mathematician of medieval India.

Ancient Nalanda University :- Ancient Nalanada univeristy was the center of education for most of the student around the globe at that time. You will find more information about the auto biography of Xuanzang Yijing who was the student of nalanda and belongs to china. He mentioned in his auto bipgraphy book that the infrastructure of Nalanda University was very good, at that time the lecture hall was full, no student missed any lecture.There are many coaching centers outside Nalanda University, which used to get students ready for admission in Nalanda University. Nalanda university. 
The entrance exam of Nalanda University which used to be very tough for admission, only 20% students were able to clear.

Debating - An intrinsic part of indian tradition :- Debate were the important part of oldest indian education system. This was the way knowledge was propagated in india. Debating term used at that time are saadhya (thesis which is to be established) , siddhanta(conclusion), hetu(reason), Udahaarna(example), pratyaksha(perception), pramaana(proof). 

There ware funding system at that time as well to manage the economy purpose of universities. It was around 100 villages collectively fund to a university.
At that time there was system stipend as well like student who are studying the more advanced Vedanta , mimamsa or Vyakarana should get 60% stipend more than basic level students.
There is more information I have about indian education system at more than 1000 years ago.It will become very large but as a indian we must be knowing our history and it is totally about science.

 

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