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Differences in education between Sparta and Athens
I. Spartan education

Features: 1. Education is class-oriented; 2. Education is completely controlled by the state; 3. Give priority to military sports training and moral education, ignoring cultural knowledge; 4. Pay attention to women's education.

Second, Athens education.

Features: 1, education has a class nature; 2. Pay attention to the harmonious development of morality, intelligence, physique and aesthetics, that is, pay attention to both physical exercise and learning of cultural knowledge, moral education and aesthetic education; 3. Pay attention to the development of public and private education; 4. Ignoring the similarities and differences between women's education in Athens and Sparta.

The two have something in common: they are both slave cities politically, education serves the slave-owning class and is hierarchical, and the training targets, whether soldiers or citizens, serve the state power. Due to the requirements of the times, both of them attach importance to the role of physical education in education. Sparta conquered and enslaved the natives, and the whole country was a soldier; In order to be strong, Athens also attached importance to physical education and conducted systematic military training for its citizens.