EARLY CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AND

MUSLIM EDUCATION

*---EARLY CHRISTIAN---* EDUCATION

The Roman Catholic Church was the “Center of Education and Literacy”.

AIMS OF EDUCATION The Primary aim of Early Christian Education was the moral regeneration of the Individual.

TYPES OF EDUCATION Moral Religious

CONTENTS OF EDUCATION The Basic Elements of Church Doctrine Church Rituals Moral Virtues

AGENCIES OF EDUCATION Catechumenal Schools Catechetical Schools Cathedral Schools

METHODS USED Impromptu Exposition Exhortation Example Methods Catechetical method Rote Recitation

MONASTICISM Comes from the Greek word

“monachos,” a solitary person. Monk - The regular clergy, comes

from the Greek word “monos” meaning alone.

Three Main Principles Obedience Simplicity Industry

Aim of Monastic Education

Salvation of individual souls. A kind of moral and physical

discipline based on bodily mortification and wordly renunciation for the sake of moral development.

Three Vows of Monastic Education Chastity – involved giving up the family

and all human relationships. Poverty – meant rejection of all materials

in life. Obedience – included renunciation of

rank and distinction.

Types of Monastic Education Literacy activities Manual training

Content of Monastic Education

ReadingWritingArithmeticSeven Liberal ArtsTrivium Quadrivium Grammar ArithmeticRhetoric GeometryDialect AstronomyMusic

*---MUSLIM EDUCATION---*

CONTENTS Aims of education

Curriculum

Organization of Islamic education

Methods of teaching

Role of teacher

Educational implications

AIMS OF EDUCATION Preparation of the individual for

future life.

Religious knowledge for salvation

Propagation of religious knowledge

Propagation of Islamic law and Islamic value system

CURRICULUM Quran The biography of hazrath Muhammad Laws of Islam Arabic and Persian languages Grammar Literature Logic Philosophy Astrology History Geography Agriculture Unani system of medicine Sanskrit for Hindu children

 

Organization of Islamic education

Bismillah (a ritual at the age of four)

Maktab (primary school)

Madrasa (first modern univesities)

Methods of teaching

Memory method for memorization of various aspects of knowledge

Recitation method

Reading method

Writing method

Oral methods

Role of teacher

Teachers were used to be holy persons.

Teachers used to develop a personality of the students using different methods.

They used to follow the principles of reward and punishment.

Medium of instruction used by teachers was Arabic and Persian.

Student-teacher relationship were harmonious. Teachers used to behave like parents.

Educational implications

Education is sacred as it was Allah himself who educated the first man.

More emphasis on reading and writing.

Education is a continuous process.

Education is not restricted to what went within the school.

No gender restrictions in education.