Jaina System of Education

It is historically certain that the Jaina contribution to education was as great, significant and important as that of the Buddhist. The book offers an account by studying the problem in connection with its five important agents, viz. the family, the church, the school, the state and the industry, The title `Jaina System of Education’ that the book bears might be more appropriately replaced by `Educational Systems Found in Jaina Literature’ inasmuch as the Brahmanical, the secular and the vocational education have also been dealt with. It is a historical fact that there were no watertight compartments in India separating Jainism, Buddhism and other cognate schemes of life and religion. They all contributed harmoniously towards the development of culture as a whole. Necessarily the contributions of these several systems in the field of education were inseparably mixed up.