First, different systems:
1. In Sparta, which is based on agriculture, education is completely controlled by the state. The state adopts strict centralized leadership and regards children as state-owned. Government officials and social adults fulfill their supervision obligations to teenagers, and teenagers must obey them. All the expenses of education are borne by the state, and young people must receive free education.
2. Commercially developed Athens adopts a laissez-faire policy in education, and does not rely entirely on the state to control education. Instead, it is the responsibility of the family to educate children, choose the right school for them, and pay tuition fees regularly.
Second, the training objectives are different:
1. In order to cultivate strong fighters, Spartan children aged 7 to 18 entered the national educational institutions and began to live in military camps. At this stage, the main task of education is to cultivate children's healthy physique, tenacious will, courage, perseverance, obedience and patriotism through strict military sports training and moral indoctrination.
2. In Athens, many types of schools are privately founded, such as gymnastics schools, music schools, grammar schools, rhetoric schools and philosophers' colleges. The education level is uneven, there are many schools, and you can choose to go to school at will. The government does not seek unity.
Third, the development is different:
1, Athens is located in Attica Peninsula, surrounded by the sea on three sides, with convenient transportation, rapid development of navigation, commerce and trade, relatively developed economy, and its geographical location is conducive to accepting ancient oriental culture. With the implementation of democratic politics in Athens, it promoted the contention and development of various schools of thought, which laid the foundation for the prosperity of philosophy, science, culture, art and education in Athens.
2. The main task of Athens education is to educate their children through physical, intellectual, moral and aesthetic education, which requires that their children should be trained not only as soldiers, but also as activists in social, economic and cultural aspects, in short, as qualified Athenian citizens.