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Period: 3100 BCE to 3100 BCE
Early Civilizations
The invention of writing emerged, with the rise of commerce, government, and formal religion. -
Period: 1200 BCE to 1200 BCE
Ancient Greek
The aim of education in the Greek city-states was to prepare the child for adult activities as a citizen.Sparta provided training for girls who went beyond the domestic arts. The girls were not forced to leave their home, but otherwise their training was similar to that of the boys. In Athens the ideal citizen was a person educated in the arts of peace and war. The children attended primary school from the age of 6 or 7 to 13 or 14. -
Period: 146 BCE to 1200
Ancient Rome
The education of the Roman child took place at home. Most of the books written in Europe until about 1200 were written in Latin. -
Period: 476 to 1500
The Middle Age
Most of the students were current or future members of the clergy, although some lay students were trained to be employees. A 7-year-old boy in the Middle Ages became an integral part of the adult world, absorbing adult knowledge and doing a man's job to the best of his ability during what would be the middle years of primary education today. The 12th century no longer ignored women's education, although only a small percentage of girls attended school. -
Period: 1300 to
Renaissance
They wanted education to develop man's intellectual, spiritual, and physical powers for the enrichment of life. The school that most embodied these early Renaissance ideals was founded in Mantua, Italy, in 1423 by Vittorino da Feltre. -
Period: 1501 to 1501
The reform
The religious conflict that dominated men's thoughts also dominated the "humanistic" curriculum of Protestant high schools. -
Period: to
Colonial America
Harvard College: Primary goal of training Latino school graduates for ministry. Like most universities in Europe, its curriculum was humanistic. 'The New England Primer' its purpose was to teach religion and reading. Puritan Massachusetts passed a law that requires all children to be taught to read. -
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17th and 18th century Europe
Philosophers also began to develop theories of learning that reflected the new scientific dependence on first-hand observation; teachers were incompetent and the discipline cruel. The learning methods were exercises and memorization of words, sentences and deeds that children often did not understand. Most of the members of the lower classes did not get any schooling, and what some did get was from teachers who often had little education. -
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18th century
The delayed shock waves of eighteenth-century French ideas that broke the foundations of education in the twentieth century and caused virtual turmoil in the United States.The child differs from the adult in the amount of his mind. The boy,
presumably, she is born with the same mental faculties, but weaker, than the adult. The delayed shock waves of eighteenth-century French ideas that broke the foundations of education in the twentieth century and caused virtual turmoil in the USA. -
Period: to
18th century United States
As the spirit of science, commercialism, secularism, and individualism accelerated in the western world, education in the colonies was called to meet the practical needs of seafarers, merchants, artisans, and frontier men. The academy that Benjamin Franklin helped found in 1751 was the first of a growing number of high schools that emerged in competition with Latino schools. -
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19th century United States
Improving the quality of education by establishing the first normal public schools (teacher training) With the establishment of land grant universities after 1862, high school also became a preparation for college. Vassar, the first royal women's university, was founded in 1861. High schools of Massachusetts offered up to 73 subjects or branches thereof. In the 1880s, the United States absorbed several million immigrants a year, a human flood that created new problems for the commun school. -
Period: to
19th century Europe
Primary schools in England were free
and mandatory. The usual subjects were reading, writing, religion, and, if the teacher had mastered it himself, arithmetic. The teacher was often misinformed; Often, he taught because he couldn't get any other kind of job. (Pestalozzi, Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel, Johann Friedrich Herbart, to Maria Montessori)