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

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