This inquiry attempts to address one problem that teachers hardly ever clarify the meaning of the knowledge they teach. They are not inclined to have a hard look at the rules for the construction and use of knowledge. instead, they prefer to operate with vague but nevertheless fixed ideas about the nature and the selection of knowledge and thus do not do justice to a possible analysis of meaning. Too often are they satisfied with ‘ordinary’ educational ...
Ayurveda was a system in ancient India which had its supreme duty in preventing diseases and maintaining health, rather than in curing diseases. In this it followed the principle of congruence between content and form, content meaning a particular corpus of knowledge and the ways of imparting and acquiring it, form meaning life and the forms of life. It was not a special discipline which made Ayurveda preventive but a way of life which enabled people to create ...