In plain words
The city ruled by Bharata, the younger brother of Śrī Rāma, was Amarāvatī. The university there chose the science of medicine as its own and taught the methods of Caraka, Suśruta and the rest.
Not only the subjects of the śāstras: how to lead your life with morality and honesty, how to speak in pure language, how to practise in daily life ideals of a gracious and noble nature — these too students had the chance to take in, through spreading and teaching that took the form of practice; the one and only way to develop humanity is precisely to manifest divinity and make it shine. The universities of those days gave the greater care to this aim.
Another thing: the universities of those days, not caught in the bondage of …, heeded only the aims of the lovers of learning and of scholars, and put them into practice. The goddess Sarasvatī roamed freely and encouraged everyone. They fulfilled the duty of choosing, upholding and carrying across the students whom that goddess blessed and drew to herself.
The aim of the lovers of learning in those days rested on the good ordering of the institutions of learning, and on the system of education: among the institutions called the elementary school, the high school, the college and the university, their care fell most of all on the primary school. Their intention was to make sweet feelings grow in tender hearts, in hearts that are pure, spotless and selfless. When they settled the system of education, they weighed at what time, for how long, what kind of subject, what kind of gurus, and to what kind of students training should be given. They resolved that students of differing aims, hopes and desires must be taught in different ways, and shaped the system of education; they taught each according to his own taste and leanings.
In the field of learning there was no place for compulsion. Since the students were only six to ten, the teaching went straight to each one, in a way that took root. When a doubt arose, the guru himself noticed it that very moment, taught it again and again, and would not leave the subject until it was understood. The gurus had a sense of duty; the disciples had a love of learning. The learning that ferries you to gold, to win this world, and Brahmavidyā, to attain the next: both of these they brought into harmony.
Through listening, and by watching and observing the ways the elders followed, they mastered the skills. Not the skills of the smith, the potter and the carpenter alone. Farming, music, literature, sculpture and painting were the same too. In those days people had no books. They learned divine learning with a noble heart, by a fresh path; for those who taught too, listening itself was the chief thing.
Bhārata today is a beautiful Nandana garden, a garden where flowers of many colours blossom and give joy to the heart. A Nandana garden of flowers such as Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Parsis and Jains. A land radiant with many languages, faiths and spiritual sādhanas. A land that has fostered the equality of all faiths.