International Journal of Academic Research in Education and Review
 

International Journal of Academic Research in Education and Review

Vol. 2(10), pp. 259-264. December, 2014.

ISSN: 2360-7866

DOI: 10.14662/IJARER2014.057

Full Length Research

SYSTEM OF EDUCATION IN THE BHAGAVATA PURANA: A BRIEF OUTLOOK

Dr. Pritilaxmi Swain¹ & Dr. Santosh Kumar Behera²

¹ Assistant Professor, Department of Sanskrit, Pail & Prakrit, Bhasha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati (A Central University in India), Santiniketan, West Bengal, INDIA, Email: pritisans@gmail.com

² Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia, West Bengal, INDIA. Corresponding author’s Email:santoshbehera.jkc@gmail.com

Accepted 23 December 2014

Education is a lifelong process. Education is life and life is education. Education starts from womb to tomb. In the process of education, there are four main elements such as Student, Teacher, Curriculum and Educational Institution. The process of education cannot be effective without these elements. These elements are playing an important role in the process of education. Education plays an important role in our life. Not only that it is one of the keys to modernisation. It is an instrument of social change. So far as individual is concern, it helps in the modification of human behaviour. It helps in the development of a nation. The present system of education in India is an evolution of past system of education. It does not come at once. If we analysis the history of education there are so many periods of education having unique characteristics. Education system in Modern India is very much influenced by the system of education in Ancient India. This study was purely theoretical based. Data was collected from two major sources i.e., to study the Bhagavata Purana as only the primary source of the data collection and as secondary sources, the investigators were collected data from different types books, journals, articles written by great educators about the Bhagavata Purana. The present paper wants to highlight the system of education in the light of Bhagavata Purana.

Keywords: Education, Ancient period, Gurukul System, Para vidya, Behaviour
 

Cite This Article As: Swain P, Behera SK (2014). SYSTEM OF EDUCATION IN THE BHAGAVATA PURANA: A BRIEF OUTLOOK. Inter. J. Acad. Res. Educ. Rev. 2(10): 259-264.

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