Jaina system of education/ Debendra Chandra Dasgupta

LECTURE No. I.
Introduction A brief review of the /ive great institutions of the Jaina
period, and their educational activities The Family—the Church—the School—
the State—Industry.
LECTURE No. II.
The Brahmanic and The Art-sdtools;—The Vedic school, its origin, and
organization-The Social status of the scholars-The Curricula-principles of
curricula-construction—Articulation between the Vedic and the Art-school—
The age of admission of the Art and the Vedic schools—Period of study—Climatic
influence on the mental efficiency, and the organization of the courses of studies
The influence of the Vedic and the art schools on the intellectual life of Indian
people.
LECTURE No. III.
Importance of Jaina monasteries-Departments of the state-The Aim of the
Jaina monasteries—Training agencies—Influence of geographical factors on the
Jaina monasteries—their rise and spread.
LECTURE No. IV.
Monastic organization and administration—Curricula—A list of important
monasteries offering instruction in the Eleven Ahgas—Criticism of blind memory.
The Method of teaching—religious, secular and military subjects—Life in the
monastery—Academic honours, higher studies and researches—Statistics.
LECTURE No. V.
The Education of women-Ecclesiastical-The Social position of women-Lay
and Ecclesiastical—Distribution of nunneries, and the influence of geographical
factors on the rise, growth, and cultural and religious activities of the Jaina
nunneries—Statistics.
LECTURE No. VI.
Education of women—Lay. ' The Physical, mental and emotional charac
teristics of the growing child, and the adolescent youths.—The Psychological basis
of the curricula for the education of lay women.—The Social status of femalelay
scholars.-The Training agencies.-Academic honours.-Co-education.-Concluding
remarks.
LECTURE No. VII.
Education o£ The Princes :-The Education of the princes from the pre
natal stage.-The Child and adolescent psychology-physical, mental and emo
tional traits of the growing child, and the adolescent youths and" their proper
care and education.-The Curricula in tltc Art-scliool, their psychological basis.-
The distribution of art-schools.-The training agencies-72 arts in the Jama
monastery at Moclcrapura-Statc supervision over the education of the princessacademic.
military and physical. Life-long process of physical educationideal
gvmnasiums in ancient India-iheir geographical distributions. State con
trol of the education of adult king.-Programmc of studies in the art-schools
method of teaching-individual and group-criticism of blind memory work
five-fold process of study. Educational tour-residence in the art-schools-con
cluding remarks.
LECTURE No. VIII
The influence of gcogi-aphical factors on vocations-thcir geographical distributions-
psychological basis of vocado.ial and educational selection-T ie
training agencies viz., the Family, the Church, the State, the School and InditsliT
-their closer co-operation in bnpaning vocational education to scholars-state
sanction ot guilds and merchants' association-lhcir autonomous status, subject to,
state control in making byc-iasvs and in training lite sdioiars m diverse vocation,
-residence in teachers' house was an essential ncccssity-vocaltonai education WJ.
free and compuisory-and the pupils were placed on appropriate vocations
ensure closer co-ordination between work and mslruction.-Concluding rcmar
lecture No. IX.
Literature ol the Jaina [athcrs-their medium ot instruction-tiv: codiBc^
tions of the sacred texts of the Jaiiias-thc two imponam sects of
the Digambaras and Svctambaras. A brief survey of the
Tainas-^the parepatctic tours ot Rsabha and Mahavira-a brief review of Jain
contributions to phiiosopliy, religion, art, literature, history, astronomy, ^«™i..g..
mathematia, grammar, lexicography, poetics and poiit.a-conduding remalks,
lecture No. X.
A brief r&umd of the nine lectures with conduding remarks.