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Gurukul System

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The gurukul system is a traditional model of education from the Indian subcontinent in which a student lived with a teacher, or guru, in the teacher's own household or hermitage for an extended period, receiving instruction, often in Vedic texts, philosophy or a craft, alongside domestic and ritual duties, with no set fee expected beyond what the student could offer on completing their studies. Documented from ancient times, the model declined under colonial-era schooling but survives in some traditional and revivalist religious educational institutions in India today.

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Whether a student's character, self-discipline and spirituality should be cultivated alongside academic learning by living directly in a teacher's household 1
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Teaching Vedic subjects such as Sanskrit, Vedic mathematics, Vedic astrology and yoga within a residential guru-student household, as practiced in surviving gurukuls 1
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1. Gurukul - Wikipedia
  • Education section
    Through Gurukul, students used to learn self discipline, politeness, good humanism and spirituality that would assist them to be an enlightened person in the future.
  • In Belgium section
    Vedic mathematics, Art, Music, as well as Vedic Astrology, Jyotishi, Sanskrit and Yoga.
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