EDUCATION
IN ANCIENT GREECE
Alexandra Alvarez
Mar Pons
18/02/19
OBJECTIVES:
- Trained in arts + peace and war
- small private schools
- intellectual + physical Gymnastike and Mousike
- Gymnastike: military
- Paidotribe
- Mousike: beauty + nobility + harmony + rhythm
ATHENS EDUCATION
PREPARATION BOYS:
taught home mother + male slave
BOY ROLES
Age of sixteen
Age of 18-20
basic education completed
take military training for the army or the navy.
PREPARATION FOR GIRLS
taught at home
mothers + tutors
prepare girls stay-at-home mum
GIRLS ROLES
SUBJECTS:
SUBJECTS BOY
History, Geography and ethics
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
wrestling + jumping + running +discus+ javelin
grateful, fit and attractive
GIRLS SUBJECTS
- Taugthed by their mothers
- Mother hood
- housekeeping
- Parents afraid they learned how to read
- late life husband doing work ( need subjects)
- woman take care children
PRIVATE TUTOR
Athenian women very well educated
OBJECTIVE
SPARTA
EDUCATION
- life = discipline, self-denial and simplicity
- education = war
- new baby :
- healthy = brotherhood or sisterhood
- weak = die in hillside / slave - a helot
- girls and boys = school = brotherhood
= sisterhood
"SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST"
Boy preparations
boy roles
- age 6-7 = military school (in brotherhood)
- courses = hard + painful brutal training period
- age 18-20 = fitness test
- fitness
- military ability
- leadership skills
- pass - soldiers (until age 60)
- failed - no political rights
Girl preparations
girl roles
- trained in - sisterhood
- age 6 - 7 = start school (physical education)
- school objective - strong group of women
- age 18 - fitness test
- pass = husband assigned to her + go home
- failed = Perioidos
- stayed home - controlled by men
- free will
- good fighters
Boy subjects
subjects
girls
- learned:
- survival skills
- vital skills - soldiers
- government : strong + tough spartans
- no food / no clothes = stealing
- if caught - beaten
- Spartan way : lie + cheat + steal + get away with it
Girl subjects
- taught = physical education
- wrestling
- gymnastics
- combat skills
- women - no - military or navy
- grew to be: strong + good at combat skills
subjects
boys
ARISTOTLE LIFE
ARISTOTLE
northern Greece
Stagira - 384BC
Aristocracy
father doctor
interest- nature and anatomy
education and arts
SCHOOL
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- Greek gods, philosophy + mathematics
- learned philosophy + logical thinking
ACADEMY
ARISTOTLE
- Not school or college nowadays
- no classes or specific subjects
- challenge each other with questions + debate
NEW IDEAS
- new ideas about the world
- detailed observations
- dissect animals - anatomy
- different from other educators
- work: mind + thinking + NOT observing
- Learning biology
- tried classify animals in groups
- drawing organs
- many discoveries + observations
VIRTUE
virtue
- Everything revolves around prudence and find the whole middle ground.
- Virtue comes into play when the occasion presents itself.
- In the face of danger-courage, for example.
Biography
PLATO
- Philosopher and mathemetician - Greece (writer)
- Born = 428 B.C.E
- Socrate's student
- arisotle's teacher
- First name: Aristocles
- Nicknamed : Platon (broad)
- Died: 348 B.C.E
Theory of Forms
- definition:
- non-physical forms represent the most accurate reality.
theory of forms (ideas)
OBJECTS
- every: object or quality are:
- manifestation of the form.
- the objects are shadows + mimicked the form.
- objects in reality:
- momentary portrayls of the form in different situations
- human life is wrong : no thinking carefully and logically about plans.
- end up: wrong values, careers & relationships.
- Plato = bring order and clarity - to human life
- Plato = inventor of therapy.
- submit: thought and feelings to reasons
- Essence of philosophy : "know yourself"
Think harder
the theory
love more wisely
- when you fall in love means:
- you've seen in someone else
- the good you don't have.
EXAMPLES:
- they are calm - you're agitated
- they are disciplines - you're all over the place.
- they are eloquent - you're tongue-tied.
CONCLUSION
MUSIC IS THE MOVEMENT OF THE SOUND TO REACH THE SOUL FOR THE EDUCATION OF ITS VIRTUE