BUILDING INDIA, A COUNTRY OF INNOVATIONS

Abstract

Human evolution is the lengthy process of change by which people originated from ape-like ancestors. Scientific evidence shows that the physical and behavioral traits shared by all people originated from ape-like ancestors and evolved over a period of approximately six million years. Similarly, India’s education story is rich and interesting and has a long legacy and history. In the ancient days education was imparted orally by the sages and the scholars and the information was passed on from one generation to the other. ‘Guru Shishya Parampara’ was the prominent system of education that resulted in life long powerful bondage between the teacher and the taught. Schools were mostly the hermitages and cottages of the rishis and the seers. Soon after, the temples and the community centers became the temples of learning.