KOKATANUR, R.B.2019-09-252019-09-252013-12-262013-05http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/198405The basic aim of ancient education was instilling into the minds, of peoples a spirit of being pious and religious for glory of God and good of man. The pursuit of knowledge was a pursuit of religious values. The student had to observe strict regulations. Instruction was important, but was even more significant than teaching was discipline – discipline inculcated through strict obedience to laws and regulations of student life, discipline that was rooted in morality and religion A student was required to give up lust, anger, greed, vanity, conceit and over joy. Education was free. It was free because no student was required to pay any fees. It was free also because no outside agency could interfere in the matters of education. There was perfect autonomy. No external authority no external beneficiary, no politics was permitted to enter the school or college system. A student had to pay nothing in return for education he received in a Gurukul. The inculcation of civic virtues and social values was an equally important objective of education in India. The Brahmachari after his education in the Gurukulas went back to the society to serve the rich and the poor, to relieve the diseased and the distressed.engCreative Commons Copyright (CC 2.5)EducationVedasHindu ethicsCultural ethicsCultural/intercultural ethicsReligious ethicsSpirituality and ethicsMethods of ethicsGeneral and historicalPhilosophical ethicsCommunity ethicsLifestyle ethicsSocial ethicsFamily ethicsEducation and ethicsEthnicity and ethicsArticle