The primary method of teaching in Takshashila was

Teaching at Takshashila relied mainly on debate and discussion between the teacher and advanced students.

Demonstration was not the characteristic method of this ancient centre.

The project method is a modern pedagogic technique, not an ancient one.

Simple question and answer was secondary to reasoned debate here.

Takshashila attracted students of medicine, law and military science.

It flourished as a higher-learning centre in the north-west of the subcontinent.