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In his Embassy to Ava Symes writes : 



&quot;All kioums or monasteries ... are seminaries ... in which 

 boys of a certain age are taught their letters, and instructed in moral 

 and religious duties. &quot; 



To like effect, from a work entitled The Burman by Shway 

 Yeo, we learn that 



&quot;When a boy has reached the age of eight or nine years he goes as a 

 matter of course to the Pohngyee Kyoung [Monastic School]. It is 

 open to all alike to the poor fisherman s son as well as to the scion 

 of princely blood.&quot; 



And the Catholic missionary Sangermano testifies similarly : 

 implying, also, that this education given by the priests is 

 nominally in preparation for the priesthood, since the stu 

 dents all put on &quot; the habit of a Talapoin &quot; during the period 

 of their education. The Mahometans, too, yield evidence. 

 At the present time in Cairo the university is in a mosque. 



702. Illustrative facts taken from the accounts of ex 

 tinct and decayed civilizations in the Old World, may be 

 next grouped together some of them mere hints and others 

 sufficiently full. 



Concerning Ancient India, Dutt states that education 

 consisted of learning the Yedas, and that in the later as in 

 the earlier periods it was under the priests. He also says : 



&quot;There were Parish ads orBrahmanic settlements for the cultivation 

 of learning . . . and young men went to these Parishads to acquire 

 learning.&quot; 



To this there must be added the significant fact that in the 

 Epic Period (ca. B.C. 1400 to 1000) 



&quot;Besides these Parishads, individual teachers established what would 

 be called private schools in Europe, and often collected round them 

 selves students from various parts of the country. . . . Learned 

 Brahmans who had retired to forests in their old age often collected 

 such students round them, and much of the boldest speculations in 

 the Epic Period has proceeded from these sylvan and retired seats of 

 sanctity and learning.&quot; 



Taken in conjunction with the preceding statements this 



