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Guru teaching students in a gurukul. A gurukula or gurukulam (Sanskrit: गुरुकुल, romanized: gurukula) is a type of education system in ancient India with śiṣya ('students' or 'disciples') living near or with the guru in the same house for a period of time where they learn and get educated by their guruji.
Odhavram wanted the gurukul system to extend to educating the blind so they could be self-reliant and gain social respect. He established school for the blind in 1938 using Braille script obtained from Bombay. Apart from book knowledge, he taught students to use their other senses.
A Gurukul, a Traditional form of Primary education in India. A nearly identical system was observed, described, and documented in Adam's 1836 report on vernacular education in Bengal and Bihar. This report detailed village schools where boys, typically between the ages of 5–6 and 10–12, received instruction from a respectable guru at or ...
The Samavartana (Sanskrit: समावर्तन, Samāvartana), also known as Snāna, is a rite of passage in the ancient texts of Hinduism.Performed at the close of the Brahmacharya period, it marks the graduation of a student from Gurukul (school). [1]
The Gurukula system of education supported traditional Hindu residential schools of learning; typically the teacher's house or a monastery. In the Gurukul system, the teacher (Guru) and the student (Śiṣya) were considered to be equal even if they belonged to different social standings.
The Arya Kanya Gurukul welcomes girls from all walks of life and social strata. The education system at Gurukul is a blend of Vedic heritage and modern educational systems with an orientation towards science and technology based on Arya Samaj principles. [1] [2] [3] [9] [10]
Gurukula Kangri (Deemed to be University) was founded on 4 March 1902 by the Arya Samaj sannyasi Swami Shraddhanand, who was a follower of Dayananda Saraswati, with the sole aim to revive the ancient Indian gurukula system of education. [6]
In January 1936, she along with her husband, [15] established Kalakshetra, an academy of dance and music, built around the ancient Indian Gurukul system, at Adyar, at Chennai. Today the academy is a deemed university under the Kalakshetra Foundation and is situated in its new in 100-acre (0.40 km 2 ) campus in Tiruvanmiyur , Chennai, where it ...