Role of education in the society from ancient to new and importanxce of education
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n this guest post Eleanor Dickey FBA, Professor of Classics at the University of Reading, reflects on the lessons that the education systems of Ancient Greece might hold for modern democracies. These ideas will inform Experiencing Ancient Education: a day of activities based around a recreated ancient classroom at the University of Reading on 19 November.
Experiencing Ancient Education
At Reading we are gearing up for our Experiencing Ancient Education event on 19th November, when we shall re-create an ancient schoolroom not only in its visible, physical form but also in its practices and ethos. Naturally, as we get together our wax tablets, papyrus rolls, tunics, and reed pens we’ve been thinking a lot about what the inhabitants of the ancient world considered important in education and why they considered education important.
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The anicent education system was based known as the indian system of education. It was based on astrology and basic knowledge. The sons of the kings and priest were only allowed to study. Girls were mainly forbidden to attain education.
The schooling were held outside rather than in a building and gurukuls were there where all the students are treated equally as tribals,and because of this, they had to cut woods from the forests and do such work for themselves.
The students were made to do cramming to learn what they are reading, rather than writing it.
This type of system was believed extremely strange and inferior by the Britishers, and hence, they changed the system of education.