Athenian Education: Its Drawbacks and Feats in A Modern-Day Sense I
Athenian Education: Its Drawbacks and Feats in A Modern-Day Sense I
Athenian Education: Its Drawbacks and Feats in A Modern-Day Sense I
I- Introduction
“Education is accepted as a civil right, and it is believed to create an educational
entitlement.” Throughout the years, various cultures around the world have worked to
raise generations to come by providing them with the necessary resources and skills.
Even in ancient Greek civilizations, acquiring knowledge was of prime significance.
In ancient Greece, education was considered as an important part of a person's
personality, and the form of education one obtained was heavily influenced by one's
social status and the history of one's polis. Information learning has been a market-
determined method in recent decades, in comparison to earlier civilizations.
Classical Athens education aimed to produce the Athenian, a resident of the
liberal democracy. The Athenian ideal combined the two Homeric ideals into one,
attempting to construct both the thinker and the man in practice at the same time
(Barclay 1959). Given its democratic system, education in Athens was limited to a
small minority of people. The majority of the population was illiterate, including
slaves, women, and a limited percentage of poor people (Yannikopulos, 1999).
In general, Greeks have recognized and valued schooling as a vehicle for upward
social mobility and as a fundamental component of exercising influence over the
centuries. Education in Athens was personal and not obligatory, but like Spartans,
Athenians value education as a pillar of their civilization. As a result, the bulk of
Athenian philosophers and politicians were from the middle and upper classes.
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