ATHENS - Education
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- Education
- 1 - School and teachers
- At the age of 7, boys were sent for a formal education, which could last up to 10 years
- Teachers weren't paid a lot because being a teacher wasn't anything of important in Athens. Thus, school wasn't really expensive
- Paidagôgos
- supervised boy at home and school, and had to carry boy's school bags
- had to sit with him in lessons
- help boy with homework
- had to teach boy good manners
- had to report the boy's progress to his father regularly
- many teachers taught in private houses
- 2 - Academic Studies
- teachers called grammatistês
- first studied Greek alphabet and learnt how to read and write. Then had to learn poetry off by heart, and be able to recite it.
- After this they would have to learn literature off by heart, such as the Iliad, or the Odyssey
- Would have beaten boys with cane or sandal if misbehaved
- used a wax tablet to write on and a stylus to write on it
- 3 - Musical Studies
- studied music after 2 or 3 years of Academic studies
- teacher called Kitharistês
- music was very important for Athenians, so these studies were vital
- learnt how to play an instrument called Kithera by ear, and then accompanied it to a song
- For Athenians the right music = right morals and behaviour
- 4 - Physical Education
- teacher called paidotribês. These teachers always wore purple cloaks
- boys taught sports such as running, long jump, javelin, discus and wrestling
- Physical Education was important for Athenians because it was like military training
- 5 - Higher Education
- traditional education usually finished when boys were 14, but if a family was rich enough, they would send their boys to Higher Education.
- teachers were called Sophists
- Sophists gave private lessons, and so were expensive
- taught boys rhetoric (the art of public speaking)
- This was important because Athens was democratic, and so you needed to be voted in to have power. Rhetoric taught men how to be persuasive and thus be elected
- 6 - education for girls
- learned from her mother to do the jobs around the house
- spinning
- weaving
- cookery
- managing finance
- looking after younger sibilings
- some girls who came from rich families did get an education but it was very limited, and finished after the academic studies
- however, most girls were illiterate
- learned from her mother to do the jobs around the house
- 1 - School and teachers
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