Discuss The Progress Of Greek Education: The Progress Of Greek Education

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Discuss the progress of Greek education. How were children educated? What role did the sophists play in educating the young Greek citizens? The process of educating children is a key stable of any society or civilizations as it is the way of ensuring the further generations can thrive and survive. It not always in the sense of improving reading, writing, mathematics, scientific, and historic but make sure the way of life for their people does not die. It was necessary for the children to have learned about the society and culture of which they were being prepared to learn what their family did or roles of the culture such as military, literature, and arts. Three things that were the stables of the Greek culture and would not be allowed to die. The other significant factor would arise when discussing how and who would teach the children of the Greek society. It would seem that there would be a struggle between allowing a child parents teach them or allow an outside person to do so. This would be a question of continuing tradition or allowing the society to grow an expand as time passed on. Before going into discussion of who should or should not have been responsible of teaching the children it necessary to know how exactly they were taught. Also learning whether or not money or social status played a part in how or if children were actually able to taught. “Athenians learned the norms of respectable behavior for both women and men not in school but in the family and in the countless episodes of everyday life. Formal education in the modern sense hardly existed because schools subsidized by the state did not exist. Only well-to-do families could afford to pay the fees …show more content…

Ancient Greece : From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times, pg 140
[2] Ibid, pg. 140
[3] Ibid, pg. 140
Bibliography:
Martin, Thomas R.. Ancient Greece : From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times. New Haven, CT, USA: Yale University Press, 2000. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 31 January

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