Sir,We read with interest the editorial titled “Ayurvedic education: Where to go from here” in the January to March 2014 issue.[1] We hope that this article will start a debate, and perhaps lead ultimately to some reform in Ayurvedic education. It would be a great thing if India could lead the world in developing an appropriate training system for traditional medicine that preserved the best features of the tradition.Incidentally, when I hear about the gurukula system, I often think of the Oxford tutorial system (that I experienced as an undergraduate). The two share some features. For example, there are very small numbers of pupils per teacher-sometimes only one-to-one. There is continuous personal engagement with the teacher, with a lot of conversation. The Oxford system also demands a great deal of essay-writing, with the students expected to write one or sometimes two essays per week.