I. Education in Ancient Athens
Education in Athens Athens was an ancient Greek slave city-state founded by the Athenians in the eighth century BC, and became the most prosperous and powerful country in New Zealand at the beginning of the fifth century BC. The education in Athens emphasizes that through physical, moral, intellectual and aesthetic training, the educated will be trained into citizens with strong physique, noble sentiments, extensive cultural literacy, intellectual development, various interests, beautiful eloquence and good body and mind. Before the age of 7, boys and girls received physical and mental education at home. At the age of seven, the boy entered the private Athens grammar school and music school, but lived at home and went to school with his teachers and servants. Grammar schools learn the basic knowledge of reading, writing and arithmetic for enlightenment education. Music schools teach children to play musical instruments, as well as excerpts from Homer's epics and lyric poems, with music for them to play and sing, so as to cultivate students' sense of beauty, rhythm and melody, attach importance to music education and emphasize vividness.
Second, the purpose of Chongwen education in Athens
Athens has a large number of high-quality resources, a large number of high-quality clay, and excellent harbors in mountainous areas, which are conducive to the development of industry and commerce. Athens' ruling class, agricultural aristocrats and industrial and commercial slave owners, through the famous Solon reform in history, deprived aristocratic families of many privileges, making industrial and commercial slave owners begin to share the political rights of the polis. Agriculture, nobility, industry and commerce and slave owners constantly compete for power, which leads to the national atmosphere of Athens' political life. The purpose of Chongwen Athens education is to cultivate upper-class people with harmonious development in many aspects and obey the interests of slave owners. The content is harmonious development education, but it ignores women's education. The fundamental purpose of education is to cultivate good social citizens, who can put public interests above individuals, be infinitely loyal to the country and sacrifice their lives for the benefit of the country, which is also in line with the characteristics of orthodoxy and autocracy of ancient education. Due to the excellent harbor and rich resources, developed industry and commerce, and the democratization of national politics, the school of the wise appeared in Athens, which accelerated the development of education, made the content of education more colorful, and paid more attention to the development of philosophy, literature and art.
Third, summary.
After graduating from music school and gymnastics school, the young people in Athens completed their basic education, and most of them began to look for jobs to make a living. Additional disciples can enter the National Gymnasium to receive the education of harmonious development of body and mind, and spiritual education can teach grammar, rhetoric, philosophy and other contents closely related to the speech. They can also organize students to participate in religious sacrifices, social classics, public meetings, court trials and other practical activities to carry out aesthetic education and political and moral education. The education in Athens, especially the education with coordinated development, has a far-reaching impact on future generations.