[Advaita-l] Traditional Scholarship vs Modern Pseudo-Intellectualism

[Venkatesh Murthy]

Namaste

Even in teaching Sanskrit also the modern methods are making the learning
interesting for students. The old tradition methods make the students to
learn more by memorization but not giving a lot of examples. They were good
for olden times. Students knew a lot of Sanskrit words already and were
good in spoken Sanskrit. But now students do not know many Sanskrit words
and Sanskrit is not the mother tongue. Examples must be given at every
step.


On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Venkata Subramanian <
venkat_advaita at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> From: Vidyasankar Sundaresan <svidyasankar at hotmail.com>
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> b. There is  something to be learnt from professors in a modern academic
> institution. If in today's world, we want to articulate a nuanced
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> of traditional positions on the role of revelation in our own philosophical
> traditions, we HAVE to reckon with more than three hundred years of
> academic
> study of Indian traditions that has now been firmly established. And
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> find fault with all of academia in a blanket sweeping fashion, learn from
> it and
> reconfigure how to utilize the skills you may learn from it, in order to
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> your own intellectual purposes.
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> == Well said.
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> Regards,
> Venkat.
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Regards

-Venkatesh