Teacher Education in Brahminical Period

Brahminical Period:

During Vedic education, students were supposed to perform ‘Upanayan’ at the age of four to nine, thereafter, they were sent to Gurukuls for Brahminical education. The brahminical period is notable for learning Brahminical education, whose chief characteristics were: 

1. Religious elements 
2. Character building 
3. Development of personality 
4. Self-reliance 
5. Self-control 
6. Beginning of education at appropriate stage 
7. All round development 
8. Social ideals 

The students were sent to gurukuls like in Vedic period and students sat with the gurus to gain knowledge. Education was provided to develop character and an all-round development of the students. The responsibility of boarding and lodging of the student was given to the gurus. ‘Individual system of education’ was followed in gurukuls where the students studied different subjects and in addition had to perform duties like grazing cows, fetching wood from forest, and begging for alms. The instruction was mainly oral, through which students learnt ithihas (history) and puranas in addition to Vedas and Vedanga. The motto of education was ‘simple living and high thinking’.