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7000 BCE
The primitive education
Natural education, since in it prevails the spontaneous, direct,
on the intentional influence. -
3000 BCE
Eastern education
Autocratic, erudite and religious character. It includes
towns like Egypt, India, Arabia, China and the Hebrew. The method of learning was memorization, and the motivation was the fear of harsh physical
discipline. Appeared a
group of adults designated as teachers, the scribes and the priests. The children were either in the vast majority who continued to learn exclusively by an informal apprenticeship or the tiny minority who received formal schooling. -
1600 BCE
Classical education
In Greek The goal of education was good citizenship, indivudual excellence by imitation and discipline. The goal of education in Sparta was military by training, Sparta provided training for girls and boys, participation and motivation. Education in Athens, a democratic city-state, was to produce citizens trained in the arts of both
peace and war. -
750 BCE
Ancient Rome
The types of education were Military training as well as civic moral and vocational by imitation, memorization and discipline, the education took place at home. They had the purpose of producing good orators. When the Roman Republic became an empire, in 31 BC, the school studies lost even their practical value. -
500
Medieval education
For the Middle Ages knowledge was an authoritative body of revealed truth.It was religious and intellectual discipline. It was not for the scholar to observe nature and to test, question, and discover truth for himself but to interpret andexpound accepted doctrines. there was chivalric education. Most convents educated women. -
1350
The Renaissance
The humanists added history and physical games and
exercises to the seven liberal arts. Types of the education were literary,physical, moral, religious and intellectual training. They had academy freedom and liberal education. -
The Reformation
Universal education and established elementary
vernacular schools in Germany where the children of the poor could learn reading, writing, and religion. They had excessive formalism and religious indoctrination. -
Colonial America
The primary education of upper class children in colonial days included reading, writing, simple math, poems, and prayers. Paper and textbooks were scarce so boys and girls recited their lessons until they memorized them. The tutor or governess had more authority over their students than teachers do today. -
Education in 18th-Century
United States
Education in the colonies was called upon to satisfy the practical needs of seamen, merchants, artisans, and frontiersmen. The effect of these new developments on the curriculum in American schools was immediate widespread. Continued to offer the humanist and religious curriculum. -
Education in 19th-Century
America's educational ladder was unique. Where public school systems existed in European
countries such as France and Germany, they were dual systems. When a child of the lower and
middle classes finished his elementary schooling, he could go on to a vocational or technical school. The goal of education was to transfer of information to a large number of students. At the end of the 19th century the methods of presenting information had thus been streamlined.
