what was the education like in ancient greece?

Answer 1

EDUCATION: Both daily life and education were very different in Sparta, than in Athens or in the other ancient Greek city-states. With the exception of the Athenians (who thought Athens was the best!), Greeks from other city-states had a grudging admiration for the Spartans. They wouldn't want to be Spartans, but in times of war, they most certainly wanted Sparta to be on their side. The Spartans were tough, and the ancient Greeks admired strength.

ATHENS: In ancient Athens, the purpose of education was to produce citizens trained in the arts, to prepare citizens for both peace and war. Girls were not educated at school, but many learned to read and write at home, in the comfort of their courtyard. Until age 6 or 7, boys were taught at home by their mother or by a male slave. From age 6 to 14, they went to a neighborhood primary school or to a private school. Books were very expensive and rare, so subjects were read out-loud, and the boys had to memorize everything. To help them learn, they used writing tablets and rulers.

In primary school, they had to learn two important things - the words of Homer, a famous Greek epic poet, and how to play the lyre, a musical instrument. Their teacher, who was always a man, could choose what additional subjects he wanted to teach. He might choose to teach drama, public speaking, government, art, reading, writing, math, and another favorite ancient Greek instrument - the flute.

Following that, boys attended a higher school for four more years. When they turned 18, they entered military school for two additional years. At age 20, they graduated.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

boys were the ones who went to school. girls stayed at home being taught by their grandmas mothers and aunts. sucks, huh?

Answer 6

It all depended on your social/economic status. At the bottom of the heap were slaves. In the ancient Greek world, a person might become a slave through defeat in war, or through economic vassalage-- a person could pledge themselves as surety for a loan, for example, and upon failure to repay the loan would become the thrall (slave) of the person to whom they were pledged, who could then keep them or sell them as he chose.

Slaves of course had no choice as to education. However, slaves whose condition came about because of defeat in war might be highly educated and literate, since in ancient Greece the warriors who fought in wars came of the propertied classes and had to provide their own armor and panoplies of weapons, which were not cheap even for the hoplites (foot soldiers).

An educated person who was enslaved might find himself in the position of providing education for the children of his master as a pedagogue. Such a slave might also earn additional money by doing transcriptions and/or accounts for others in the time that he had free from his normal duties, and thus could save to buy himself out of slavery.

The lower economic classes of free men in Greece would hire a tutor to teach their children what was necessary in the way of reading, writing and arithmetic, and the quality of the education depended on the amount of money the person had available to devote to education.

The highest classes of Greek society could send their sons to schools when they were young. This would include lessons in reading, writing, math, and later on poetry and drama. As young men, they could join one of the academies run by the philosophers such as Plato or Phaedo, where they could get education in logic and philosophy as well as the sciences.

All of the education that was available was limited by the exigencies of life during ancient Greek times, which meant coping with things like earning a living through trade or farming, having to be liable for military service or having to deal with the consequences of war, catastrophes like plague or drought or famine through crop failure, and individual circumstances like illness, death or injury.

Of course, all of the issues relating to education applied only to male Greeks. Education of female members of the household was generally not a priority. Further, education of women was limited by the fact that in ancient Greek society, women of good moral character could not go outside the household by themselves and were barred from virtually all public activities that men might engage in. Still, there were women who managed to achieve education in ancient Greece, but it was very hard for a woman to do so-- especially if her male relatives, to whom she was subordinate, did not want her to be educated. (At virtually every level of Greek society, a woman was considered the subordinate dependent of first her father and then her husband. A woman whose father and husband were both dead could find herself in dire straights if no male member of either her father's family or her husband's cared to be her protector and support her.)

Author Mary Renault has written some excellent fictional accounts of life in ancient Greede in her novels "The Praise Singer," "The Last of the Wine," and "The Mask of Apollo." These novels cover the time-span from about 700 BC to about 480 BC, which is the time when Greek culture was at its height. I highly recommend these books to anyone who enjoys reading, although I have to warn that "The Last of the Wine" delves into attitudes towards homosexuality in ancient Greece and as such may be a problem for some readers.

Answer 7

it must have been good, we got a goverment system from them ,plays,philosphy, sciences, and the arts