History of Education

Athenian civic education aimed to turn boys from citizen families into men who could fight for their city, speak in

Philosophers in Greek schools created something new in the history of education: lasting communities devoted to questioning, argument and research

Hebrew school traditions grew from a simple but powerful idea: that parents and communities share a duty to teach children

Babylonian tablet schools are among the best-documented classrooms of the ancient world, thanks to thousands of clay exercises that students

Sumerian writing education began with one of the most important inventions in human history: a script that could record language

Ancient Egyptian education was built around one central goal: producing literate scribes who could run the records, temples and royal

The origins of formal schooling reach back more than five thousand years, to a time when a few societies first