Ancient Indian education precepts

Everywhere is his home to the learned man, and everywhere his native land: why then doth a man neglect instruc- tion up to his dying day?

Knowledge is like unto a sand-spring : the more thou diggest and drawest thereat, the more excellent is the flow thereof

Acquire thoroughly the knowledge that is worth acquiring: and after acquiring it walk thou in accordance therewith.

Though thou hast to humble thyself before the teacher even as a beggar before a man of wealth, thou yet acquirest learning: it is those that refuse to learn that are the lowest among men.

The learned man seeth that the learn- ing that delighteth him delighteth also all that listen to him : and he loveth instruc- tion all the more on that account.

Like unto a waste land that yieldeth no harvests is the man that hath neglect- ed instruction: all that men can say about him is that he liveth, and nothing more.

The fool though born of a higher family is esteemed much less than a learned man who is of inferior descent.

Behold the man whose understanding hath not been penetrated by the grand and the subtle: the comeliness of his person is no better than the beauty of an image of clay

The fool though born of a higher family is esteemed much less than a learned man who is of inferior descent.

Bitter verily is the poverty of the man of learning: but far worse is riches in the hands of the fool.

How much better are men than beasts ? Even so much are the learned better than those that have not cared for instruction

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