A Comparative Exposition of Western and Vedic Theories of the Institution of Education

It would not be unreasonable to assume that among educationists there is an implicit understanding of the development of education in Western societies as being directly related to the progress of industrial and commerical society. This view has credence in parts but is not entirely supportable, since it legitimizes the concurrent view that the development of knowledge regarding the institution of education has been linear with respect to time. On the contrary, many aspects of modern education which we accept as being temporally progressive had existed in Hindu Vedic society in the distant past over 9,000 years ago. Moreover,educationists in that society practised aspects of education which are not found in contemporary practice, aspects which deserve the attention of modern researchers of the institution of education.