प्राचीन भारत में शिक्षा (डॉ. ए.एस. अल्तेकर - गुरुकुल एवं बौद्ध विहार शिक्षण इतिहास)

Chapter X
A GENERAL RESUME.
CONTRIBUTIONS OF BUDDHISM TO EDUCATION—Ordination
ceremony—Relations between the novice and the teacher—Education of
the laity—Rise of public educational institutions due to Buddhism—
Non-sectarian courses also provided for in them—Buddhism and
primary education—Estimate of the contributions of the Buddhism.
PERIOD-WISE SURVEY: History divided into four periods—Educa-
tion in the Vedic period—The Upanishad-Sūtra age (1000 B.C. to c. 200
B.C.) a creative period—Education in this period—The period of the
Dharmaśāstra (c. 200 B.C.—500 A.D.) an age of reflection and specia-
lisation—The general condition of education in it—The age of the
Purāṇas and Nibandhas, (c. 500-1200 A.D.)—Its achievements and
limitations.
Introduction : In the course of our narrative so
far we have finished the history of the origin and
development of the different branches of education in
ancient India. We devoted separate chapters to
topics like primary education, professional education,
educational institutions, etc., and the treatment in each
of them must have enabled the reader to visualise
clearly the development and vicissitudes that took
place in their connection from age to age. We also
indicated at each place the contribution that Buddhism
made to the development of education in ancient
India. For a proper understanding of the subject it
is however desirable that the reader should get a clear
picture of the educational conditions as a whole in the
successive periods of ancient Indian history, as also of
the contribution which the Buddhism made to educa-
tional theory and practice. We therefore propose to
devote the present chapter for this purpose. Its first
section will give a general resume of the contribution
of the Buddhism to ancient Indian education and the