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Ancient Education in the World

Ancient Educational System in the whole world had been very simple and the immaculate teachers dedicated their lives for a true education for life.

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Ancient Greek Education

Teachers lead an exemplary life and the students were treated as disciples of those kind teachers by the family members of the students. Like a family doctor, people had family teacher and the members were constantly guided by those great souls.

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Ancient Chinese Education

Everyone could afford a true education for their children as the cost of education had been low.

Ancient Roman Education was later redefined by Jesus Christ with His great passion towards mankind with “Love thy neighbour as thyself” approach.

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Jesus Christ, the Master turned to Messenger of God

Jesus Christ was an ideal mentor who challenged all his enemies with His super power of Love. He started teaching the mankind with dualism (man is the worker of God), modified non-dualism (man is the son of God) and finally prompted non-dualism or Advaitha (prompted everyone to become God by Himself).

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Great men think alike! The same thoughts were promoted by Madhwacharya by Dvaitha, dualism (God and Souls are different); Ramanugacharya taught Visishtadvaita, modified dualism (God is the target, souls are the arrows destined to merge with the target); Adi Sankara declared the great concept of Advaita, non-dualism (God and souls are one and the same).

Ramanujacharya by Vishishtavdaitha, modified non-dualism (God is the target, souls are like arrows) ; and Shankara by Advaitha, non-dualism (God and Souls are one).

Eienstein taught theory of relativity and reference frames with his great physics and metal physics approach. Energy and Matter are one or different based on the different reference frames.

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Albert Einstein, Theory of Relativity

Jainism taught us another theory of every thing. God alone is not God. Every one is God once the Truth is realized.

The teachers lead a very simple living and guide their students with very high thinking. There was an attitudinal change for every student on every day and the golden words and deeds of great teachers refined the disciples and shaped their overall personality.

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Ancient Indian Education

There were six schools of thoughts in India. They are Vaisheshika (atomic physics), Nyaya (logic and epistemology), Sankhya (Physics and meta physics), Yoga (Spiritutal practices), Mimasa (Hermeneutics and ritual) and Vedanta (Philosophy). These schools were called Dharshanas.

Our ancient teachers have developed various route maps to achieve the highest level of realization of Truth. Let us spread our wings to fly high with the navigation support of our great gurus!!

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