Education was an important part of parental and civic duty. After childhood, the first care of children is relatively young, boys become model citizens, politicians or soldiers, while girls are only prepared for marriage.
In a Greek family, only male offspring could remain in the family. Following marriage, the girl was expected to sever almost all family ties, for the sake of her future happiness only with her new husband.
Consequently, although all the boys received a rudimentary education, only the males benefited from extensive training. Artifact and literary evidence suggests that many children (of both sexes) are protected from the care of adult life by Children often depict and decorate< skills In ancient Athens students were trained to become members of popular society. Given the pressure imposed on all male citizens to take an active part in debate, justice, and local or state government, it seems likely that literacy was very high, although this level of education was probably lower in the inner city. There was no state education system, so the apprenticeship system was not affordable for those families. This encouraged young people to improve their education while learning a vocation, trained by a master craftsman or tradesman. Apprenticeship, a minimum of six years, usually started as a 12-year-old. Typical trades that relied on the apprenticeship system included the builder, tradesman, potter, carpenter, and wrecker. For the male offspring of wealthier citizens, the options are far more appealing. When he was about seven years old, the boy was removed from his nurse and given to the care of a tutor, chosen by a family member, who accompanied him everywhere, and if he did wrong, he deserved punishment. He took the children as tutors to school and stayed with him to help them and worked hard. The law forbids children to be in the streets during the hours of darkness, so classes were held half an hour from sunrise to half an hour before sunset. The classes, held in the private homes of the teachers, taught the basic lessons of writing and mathematics. Since music was a big part of life in ancient Greece, children were also taught to sing and play the lyre and flute. As for the education of the girls, their brothers resisted the intention of the school. Slaves were often taught the finer living spaces, the skills needed to run a household, and the expected forms of social behavior. Although schools existed to teach these skills to girls, little is known about their use and prevalence s.
When the boy was 12 years old, his training was expanded to include physical education physical-education, which is now preceded them all. another matter. Academic classes were held under a portico surrounded by palaistra, an open-air sports field, which took its name from pale (wrestling).
He taught the Paidotribes gymnastics and other physical exercises, using a long staff with the necessary equipment, which were performed naked with the young men naked. The discussion was set to music, which was followed by the sports of wrestlers, running, discus and shot put.
After the exercises, the class retired to the bathroom to clean the house up. These combined baths and palaestras are commonly known as a gymnasium, from the Greek word gymnasium, which means ‘naked’, and every important Greek city had at least one.
Young adults also attend university to learn more about finer disciplines, such as appreciation and participation in music, culture, science and the arts. This was probably the only Athenian institution, considering the society that emphasized cultural development.
The school Schooling lasted about 12 years, leaving at the age of 18, at which point the young man was fit for military service. education and special education in religious and political services.
The young men of this age, as soldiers, were subjected to a tougher army life. Most of these military experience lasted for one to two years, after which the young man was considered a fully absconding citizen. Poles The exception was liberal policies, most notably in Lakedaimon, where the Lacedaemonians ran a very different government of education, but modeled it on Athens.
If the regiment continued academic education in parallel with military instruction, the process was managed by sophists hired for this purpose. These pedagogues warned the errant about the skills vital to civil and political advancement: oratory, persuasion, rhetoric, reason, philosophy, and logic.
In the fourth century this sophistic education had given rise to the institutions of higher disciplines, the most famous of which was Plato’s Academy. This led to the development of young leaders of young experts, political and military affairs through the growth of the city. These leaders helped shape ancient Greece and shared responsibility in its successes and failures.
