Education is a single purposeful process of education and training, as well as a set of acquired knowledge, skills, values, functions, experience and competencies.
Education is a purposeful process of transferring accumulated knowledge and life experience to the younger generation.
Features of education and upbringing in Athens
The ideal of Athenian education is a set of human virtues, which is expressed in the formation of a comprehensively developed personality with high intelligence and body culture. However, only free and wealthy citizens of Athens had the right to strive for the ideal.
The essence of the educational process was constant competition. So, children, teenagers and young men constantly competed and competed in gymnastics, music, dance, rhetoric, etc. All this helped them to assert themselves and hone their best qualities.
Education in Athens began from birth. Until the age of 7, children were brought up in a family. Upon reaching the age of 7, boys received the opportunity to receive education in public and private educational institutions.
Athenian schools were small, with 20-50 students per teacher. Schools were located most often right on the streets of the city, less often in the teacher's house.
During the training sessions, the teacher sat on a high chair, the children were placed around him on low stools. They wrote on their knees. With one teacher, children of different ages could study at the same time. For example, while some students were answering the teacher's questions, others were doing a written assignment, while others could even be at lunch at that time.
There were no holidays in schools, and family and city holidays were considered days off.
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