greek education

Greek Education

Pau VillanuevaBS CDE

Education during the Greeks

2 Forms of education1. Sparta (Military Education)

Who is Sparta? Sparta is the patroness of art before it went to series of wars.

Spartan boys were raised for military purpose.

People: The Warriors

Aims: To prepare children

for their place in the state.

What is the State?

STATE The state is the dominant educational agency. It controls all family life including the right of the born child.

2. Athens(Liberal Education)The ideal of education was the aesthetic, a harmonious physical, intellectual and moral training.

Elementary School (Academic Institution)-grammar, arts, arithmetic and music. Music is very important to them since it has a wider meaning for them. Music includes literary and moral instruction for them.

e.g.Patriotic Songs and Epic poems

Philosophers of Education

SocratesThe first philosopher to search for the truth from the world outside to the world withinHe believes the saying of “Knowing yourself.”

ContributionTeaching was personal, dialogical, and conducted according to the needs of his pupil.

Sophist school – Argumentative Aim: to show weakness of

reasoning or to reveal erroneous conclusions.

Midwifery – The Socratic Method• called as “maieutic” method

or “birth-giving process”.

Socrates believes that..“Knowledge must serve as a guide to right conduct; knowledge leads to virtue.”

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