Educational Heritage of Ancient India | Sahana Singh |

A wonderful Talk by Sushri Sahana Singh on the ancient Indian education system and her recently published book on the same topic:
"Educational Heritage Of Ancient India".
The speaker discusses in detail the glory of advance education system of India and the well developed universities with huge campus and a well accomplished library, where scholars from various nations used to come for studying. She gives references from Mahabharata and other renowned scriptures where the ashrams of many scholarly Rishis trained young men and women in many fields of education such as: Vedas, literature, grammar, logic, mathematics and sciences. After completing education Gurus used to encourage students to travel far and wide to gain experience. The debates among scholars was a great way to propogate knowledge to the common people.
Many invasions by Turks, Mughals and many others over the years slowly affected the entire system and much of the heritage was lost. By the time British came to India the scientific, logical approach towards knowledge had reduced to nominal and the economy was in poor shape, thus giving an impression that India needed western education.

About the speaker:
Sushri Sahana Singh is an author and commentator based in Texas, USA. She is an environmental engineer by qualification who writes on a variety of issues including Indian history, water management and education. Her two books on India's educational heritage have been appreciated for awakening Indians to the role played by India in spreading knowledge around the world. Smt Sahana is on the board of many nonprofit organizations related to history, heritage, education, restoration of Samskara and to the cause of helping Hindu refugees.

Sahana Singh's book The Educational Heritage of Ancient India can be purchased here:
The Educational Heritage of Ancient India: How an Ecosystem of Learning Was Laid to Waste

https://www.amazon.in/dp/1947586521/r...

Subtopics:
0:00 Introduction of the Book
1:10 India as educational capital of the world
3:00 The scholars across the world took difficult journeys to India for education
5:00 Discussions and logical arguments encouraged scientific discoveries
8:00 The professors from Nalanda travelled to other universities
10:50 Xuan-sang autobiography describes the Nalanda university
13:28 Debating terms and format for shastrarth
15:36 Well established system for funding higher education
18:20 Inscriptions in Tamilnadu about institutionalised universities
21:40 Knowledge transfer from India to China
24:47 Knowledge transfer to Greece, Arab world and Europe
29:05 Destruction of universities fatally marred the education
30:15 Destruction of liabraries and Manuscripts
32:30 Islamist education affected sanskrit and thethriving economy
34:00 British education for native work force
36:25 Imposing English for convenience
38:25 Findings of Dharampal
40:30 Poverty and famines under British rule
42:00 Education in regional languages collapsed
43:57 Importance of knowing your roots

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