1, pay attention to the all-round development of students. Athens education requires students to develop harmoniously in physical strength, intelligence, aesthetic feeling and moral character. Diversified purposes. The purpose of Athens education is to train the children of the ruling class into strong soldiers, as well as politicians and businessmen with various talents, eloquence and good business contacts.
2. Emphasize knowledge education. Athens regards knowledge education as the most important content of training political activists and slave-owning class officials, which can enable them to learn navigation knowledge and political and legal knowledge. Attach importance to music education. Music education in Athens is mainly to cultivate people's sense of rhythm, and then as a favorable weapon to express their thoughts and feelings.
3. Pay attention to free thinking and independent thinking ability: Athens education emphasizes cultivating students' critical thinking and independent problem-solving ability, and encourages students to question traditional ideas and think independently.
4. Pay attention to social participation and practical ability: Athens education pays attention to cultivating students' sense of social responsibility and practical ability, requiring students not only to have solid theoretical knowledge, but also to be able to apply what they have learned to real life and actively participate in social activities.
5. Emphasis on the development of individual freedom and personality: Unlike Spartan education, which emphasized collectivism and discipline, Athens education emphasized the development of individual freedom and personality, and encouraged students to pursue self-worth and achieve personal goals.
6. Pay attention to aesthetic education and cultural accomplishment: Athens education pays attention to cultivating students' aesthetic taste and cultural accomplishment, and requires students to master art forms such as music, painting and literature, so as to improve their self-cultivation and artistic appreciation.
The characteristics of Spartan education are as follows:
1, military training and physical exercise. The core of Spartan education is military training and physical exercise, because the Spartan city-state is in a state of constant war and needs strong soldiers to defend it. Therefore, Spartan education pays attention to cultivating students' physical fitness and endurance, so that they can fight on the battlefield for a long time.
2. Discipline and self-discipline. Spartan education attaches great importance to discipline and self-discipline, and students must obey the orders of instructors. At the same time, Spartan education also attaches importance to cultivating children's self-discipline and letting children learn self-control and self-control.