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JAINA SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
and his vocation This is a grand monument of the practical com mon foresight of our ancestors directed to the formulation of a sound scheme of education Science and idealisin here went hand in hand
In vocational education the influence of the family the church, the state the school and industry-the five great institutions of society is clearly perceptible These institutions especially the state and industry were chiefly instrumental in imparting vocational education to the mercantile communities artizans agriculturists and other workers in society The state took a leading part in patronising voca tional education Assemblies of the merchants with departinental system and guild were orginized subject to the general control of the state. These were autonomous bodies with the right to make their own byelaws and with a hierarchy of officers to supervise the vocational educa tion of the students The Art school also opened vocational classes. Vocational education was practically free and compulsory as we noticed in connection with our lecture on the subject No scholar was allowed to drop out of the school before completion of the stipulated period Its students like those of the Art schools received theoretical and practi cal education simultaneously They worked in the factories ranches or in other places of work both for practical experience and monitary gain and in the vocational class they received theoretical instruction on their selected occupations Thus like the American Part Time CoOperative schools the students of the vocational classes received both the theoretical and practical training at the same time.
Thus work and instruction were closely correlated and the pupils in the mercantile and guild schools used to receive training in com merce business industry technology agriculture and in other voca tions of life in an occupational environment
The activities of these above mentioned four institutions excepting the family were closely interrelated The state was instrumental in the support of the Jaina religion and education and the industry of the country which again added to the national wealth
Next we discussed the influence of the transportation system on the religious and educational activities of the Jaina fathers Le the principal routes followed by the Jaina fathers in their preaching tours and their consequent influence on the moral and mental life of the people The debates held in the Jaina monasteries and the migration
