Reflection 15

Ancient Athenian educations purpose was for their sons a rounded education and for the appreciation of many things in the world. From the ages of seven to fourteen boys where taught in on room something similar to a cubical. Theywere taught musical traits like singing and playing an instrument for entertaining friends and family. Greeks believed that music helped purified and cleansed the soul.
Gymnastics was also a big partof the athenian curiculum. Of course this was to build a great warrior out of the young men they were taught how to swim and play on teams naked and covered in olive oil. They were also taught how to wrestle each other and throw javeline and discus. Of course the females were kept at home where they were tuaght house keeping and thing of that nature,
The ancient Roman education for a period of tim ethe children were taught by their parents. The mother taught the girls and the boys until about the age of seven and they continued on teaching the girls housework and anything else that would be essential for girls t be knowlegdeable of. When the boys approached the age of seven they were sent to their fathers to be taught. It was the fathers responsibility to pass on the knowledge that he saw fit to suceed in life. Eventually public schooling was offered for the less fortunate children and reading and writting was a very slow process that took alot of time for the children to grasp properly. They were still taught by the same sex parents especialy if they knew how to read and write and the girls were taught to sew, weave, and learning to spin. Of course education was really based on how poor you were. The poorest children were taaught by there parents, middle class were taught by there slaves and the others were either sent a tutor or they were able to attend proper schooling.
The apparent difference is deffinately culture. The Athenian culture I believe was more fixed upon war and soldiers but they deffinately want to have warriors that were capable of winning a war outside of the battle feild. Romen education was just that education but it was very limited education.