Education Flashcards
How was learning viewed in the ancient times?
Learning was preparation for adulthood. However, Learning just to learn was looked down upon.
What were children educated on?
Children were educated and taught morals in order to become good morals beings and useful to society
What were boys taught?
Boys were given education and taught to be brave to be useful in war.
How were education classes set up?
Children would sit around with other children of variable ages in the same class. There was not a set-in-stone grading system but there was different educational levels for different levels
Was education a private or public affair?
Education was a private affair. Governments did not force children to go to school
Did every child go to school?
Not many children went to school as they helped out at home. Education was tied with wealth and status in the ancient world . Rich children are pushed into school all the time to maintain their dominant status in education
What did children learn in terms of education?
Homer
Morals
Farming
Infracture
Domestic work
What was Paedagogus? What did he do?
A form of informal education? Practiced by the ancient greeks and later taken by the Romans. A paedag was an educated slave who would help teach a child at a very young age.
He also acted as a guardian to the child especially if the child was outdoors. Paedag could also discipline the child. This was a very debatable subject as theres a status conflict .Paedag was also expected to protect the children even at the cost of their own life
What as a Paedag relation like with the child that they were tasked to look after and teach?
It was common for the paedag and the child to form a friendship
Did wet Nurses also educate?
In Greece not so much but Romen, yes. According to Quintilian, women and wet nurses were encouraged to be educated so children can learn from them.
Were women educated in ancient Greece and Rome?
Highly unlikely in ancient Greece but in Rome, it was more encouraged. Romen Women from the upper class were very likely to be educated
What was the Athenian education system like?
This system consisted of Grammata, gymnastike, mousike. Gymnatike was to keep the child in shape for their military training. Mousike is imporant as a form of education especially for nobility . Grammata was for literature such as learning about Homer and how to write/talk/read. After age 14, if the parents did not value their childrens education, they were put to work
How was the Spartan educational system like?
Sparta did not value musical and literature education, only gymnastike and military in regards to education.
How was the Roman Education like?
Around age 8, a child should receive a formal education. There was Ludimasgister who was gudied by a Ludius, and Grammaticus. Ludimasgister was Basic schooling like language construction, memorization and tongue twisters (primary schooling), learning how to read and write,separating words in a inscription (ancient greek writing was all words, no breaks and no punctuation), and basic math.
Grammaticus started ata ge 12-15 (when education usually ended). They learned music, performance, philosophy, mythology, more writing etc
Music and performance was also helping for the art of public speaking
Did both boys and girls attend to Ludimasgister?
Yes, girls and boys both went. Girls mainly went to learn how to write a letter.
