EDUC 1F95 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Virtue Ethics, Academic Freedom, Nicomachean Ethics
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The history and philosophy of education: education in ancient greece. A distinctive feature of the spartan system was the attention paid to the training of women. They educated their women because they had to become worthy members who would be the primary educators of their songs from birth to age 7. The mothers taught the young children at home, while the father was busy with the duties of citizenship. The spartan model of an educated man was a brave warrior whose goal was to become a courageous military hero. The education of the young was looked at as a public rather than a private matter and was entrusted exclusively to professional hands. Citizens were expected to be able to read, write, to count, and sing or play the lyre. Education began in athens around 640-550 b. c. with solon"s edict that every boy should be taught to swim and to read in schools or gymnastic schools.
