How did primitives taught their children?

Question

You can add other information like the first school founded, or who started homework......or stuff like that

Answer 1

Early man educated their young by showing them what to do, basically. Education for early people was survivial. You taught your young what to eat, how to find it, what plants healed, which ones harmed, etc.
Later, as men came together to live in larger groups, forming towns and cities, education was divided. It was the parents responsibility to educate their children in the home arts, trades and finance. Religious instruction, an informal thing, was to be found at the temples. Oral historians in many cultures performed the task of educating the young in the history of their people, the country in which they lived, and other societies to be found close by.
Formal education, as in a school, can be traced back as far back as 3000BC, in Egypt. Greece had formal schools of education for philosophy, medicine, etc. Education as we know it today can be traced to the 18th century.

Answer 2

The first thing they did was taught their children how to conjugate verbs like 'teach' correctly.

Most of the time, children were taught important living skills by their parents. For the boys it was hunting, fishing, etc., for the girls it was gathering, cooking, etc.

They might learn some tribal or clan knowledge from the older people if they had time, but survival was job #1.

As people started domesticating animals, and learning to farm - it still required a lot of work, but allowed a little more leisure time for learning.

A lot of schools were started by churches (think Roman Catholic, etc), which were the de facto town centers - as civilization progressed, it became more and more necessary to be able to read and write, and do arithmetic in order to keep from getting scammed, or to be taken seriously.

In various countries, either the local or federal (or equivalent) governments determined that a certain level of education was now necessary in the 'modern world' - and would make an individual a much more productive member of society.

Obviously not everyone benefits from a good education, ('the world needs ditch diggers too' --caddyshack) but like a lot of things, it is up to the individual what they take away from it, and a lot of people choose to waste the opportunity.

Now that society has progressed to the point it has, with computers, software, and various other technologies, it is more necessary than ever for people to get a good education - and not just high-school, but at least some college, just to get their foot in the door at any kind of decent job.

Answer 3

Who started homework? The same people who said schools should be someplace other than at home.
There have been schools since ancient times; however in the US attendance was not compulsory until about 1912 or so in most places and was really not strictly enforced until after WWII.
I would guess primitives teach or taught their children by example.

Answer 4

In most primitive cultures, education was mostly learning by doing and was very basic. The children learned to hunt, to gather, and, later, to grow crops and tend livestock.

It wasn't until much later, when people were settled into towns and cities, that reading and writing developed, and, with them, schools.

As to when and where the first school was founded, I can only hazard a guess and say it was probably somewhere in the Middle East, after cuneiform writing developed.

Answer 5

After Ug threw Erg, Alg and Gug off of a cliff, Mug knew well enough to stay away from Ug after he had eaten the fermented berries over on the hill...he got mean.

Yeah, primitive people taught their children by example (see how Ug does not tickle the alligator?) and the children themselves learned by watching the world around them (that drunk Ug just killed all my brothers and sisters!)

As for the first school, it seems that schools existed as far back as the Byzantines, who established a schooling system for children in 425 A.D. and military personnel usually were educated.

I think I read somewhere that the devil started homework, but I can't find a source for that one. Sorry!

Good luck!

Answer 6

By first learning through experience and passing this knowledge on to subsequent generations. You will find this progressive repetitive method among the paleo tribes of what we term "cave men," 10,000 year old Native American tribes up to modern civilization. For instance, a successful hunter established his/her "street creds" by observing just how and where he was able to slay animals and feed the tribe. Tracking a specific useful meat animal which also provided skins for bedding, cloaks and tipi coverings was a studied progress. Homework is mostly thought of as a more modern "whiteman's concept," but it actually began by dances and weapons instructions orally and demonstrably handed down by aboriginal peoples whom incorporated these practices into their daily lives as early "survival training."

Answer 7

Primitives?

The same as yesterday and today - teach by doing. Gardening, weeding, baseball, sewing, vacuuming, cooking, how to change or air up a tire, change oil in the car, and "back in the days", to gap a spark plug. Also language gives us an oral tradition. Going on 60 years ago my grandmother told me her/our entire genealogy to back before the Revolution - accurately.

When I took up genealogy as a hobby interest I learned to expect "family lore" to be inaccurate. Grandma wasn't inaccurate.