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Ancient Education Systems Overview

The document outlines the evolution of education from primitive times to ancient civilizations, highlighting the aims, types, and methods of education in cultures such as China, India, Egypt, and Persia. It discusses the importance of education for social stability, the training of scribes and priests, and the role of various educational agencies like homes and temples. Additionally, it emphasizes the contributions of ancient education systems to civilization, including the development of writing, mathematics, and cultural preservation.
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Ancient Education Systems Overview

The document outlines the evolution of education from primitive times to ancient civilizations, highlighting the aims, types, and methods of education in cultures such as China, India, Egypt, and Persia. It discusses the importance of education for social stability, the training of scribes and priests, and the role of various educational agencies like homes and temples. Additionally, it emphasizes the contributions of ancient education systems to civilization, including the development of writing, mathematics, and cultural preservation.
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Outstanding Contribution

The primitive man started the rudiments of

education from which evolved the modern

educational system.

Ancient Oriental Education

Education for Social Stability

AIMS OF EDUCATION

➤CHINA: To preserve ancestral traditions

➤INDIA: To preserve of the caste system and

religious beliefs

➤EGYPT: To preserve religious traditions

➤PERSIA: To strengthen military traditions

Types of Education

• Moral Training/ Social Training

• Theoretical/ Religious Training

Methods of Instruction

• School work is chiefly memorization

of text, the method is direct imitation.


Agencies of Education

~ Home is the most center for most

ethical and social training. Other

agencies were pagoda, temple,

under the trees or covered sheds.

SUMERIAN EDUCATION

Education for business people

SUMERIAN EDUCATION

- were commercial people

- their king called patesi was their temporal as

well as spiritual leader

- there system of writing was cuneiform

Aims of Education

• Training scribes- trained to do ecclesiastical work in

temples mostly writing.

• Training of bookkeepers- to record their multifarious

business transactions

• Training teachers

• Training the learners to be good and to do good things


especially their god and to humanity called namlulu.

Types of Education

1. Writing Education

2. Mathematical Education

3. Language Education

4. Vocational Education

5. Professional Education

Agencies of Education

1.Home

2.School

3. Temple schools

4.Apprenticeship Schools

Methods of Instruction

• Imitation and copying

• The main work of the learners was the

preparation of tablets.

»Teacher was called School father

» Pupil was called School son

~ Flogging was the penalty of the pupil Who

failed to prepare his tablets.


The Effects

- Through the cuneiform writing, it Conserved

the early civilization’s origins besides being the

medium of instruction and commercial language

of ancient world.

Education for Public Administration

( Early Egyptian Education)

Ancient Egypt was the birthplace of one of the

world’s first civilizations. It thrived for 2, 000

years and so became one of the longest lasting

civilizations in history. The Nile River was the

life blood of the ancient Egypt.

Early Egyptian Education

(3000 B.C. – 300 B.C)

A. Aims

1. Training of Scribes

2. Religious

3. Utilitarian
4. Preservation of Cultural Patterns

B. Types of Education

1. Religious, Vocational-Professional,

Priesthood, Home Arts, Writing, Reading and

Language Education

2. Education for Public Administrations

C. Contents to be Studied

Reading, writing, language, religion, artistry,

Mathematics, astronomy, engineering,

architecture, physics, medicine, embalming,

dentistry, Saw music, arts, Physical Education

and military

Agencies of Education

1. Home

2. Temple Schools

3. Military Schools

4. Court Schools

5. Vocational Schools

Egyptian Education

• Girls were not allowed to attend school;

they learned what they needed at home


from their mothers.

• Papyrus was expensive so students

took notes on pieces of broken pottery.

Egyptian Education

• The first schools were to train priests in Egypt.

-They taught reading and writing.

• The sons of the pharaoh were educated at

home by tutors.

• Noble boys only attended school.

• They would study history,

geography, literature, religion, math,

surveying and engineering, medicine,

accounting, and legal/letter writing.

• Egyptian middle and lower class

boys did not go to school; They

learned a trade from their fathers.

Methods of Instruction

* Apprentice

* Dictation, memorization, copying or imitation,

repetition

* Observation and participation

~ Flogging was used to penalize failure to learn


Effects/Contributions

»They created the world’s first national government, basic

forms of arithmetic and a 365- day calendar.

» Development of geometrical measurement and

surveying

» Invented hieroglyphics

» Invented papyrus.

» Develop the first religions to emphasize life and death.

» Built great cities.

» Built pyramid.

The downfall of ancient Egypt

» After centuries of progress, Egypt declined

due to refusal of the priestly class to change the

accepted rules and practices. Conceptual

thinking, reasoning, creative imagination and

intellectual curiosity were foreign to them.

EDUCATION FOR

DISCIPLINE

(JEWISH

EDUCATION)
Genesis 18:19 “For I know him that he will

command his children and his household after

him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to

do justice and judgement.” same as the Old

Testament. “Train up a child in the way that he

should go, and when he is old, he will not depart

from it.” (Proverb 22:6) and “Fear of the lord is

the beginning.” (Proverb 9:10)

The Aim of Education

• Ethical and Religious

Method of Instruction

• Oral and learning by practice

• “He that spareth the rod hateth his son”

Proverb 13:24 (Discipline Versus Abuse

THE END

THANK YOUOutstanding Contribution

The primitive man started the rudiments of

education from which evolved the modern


educational system.

Ancient Oriental Education

Education for Social Stability

AIMS OF EDUCATION

➤CHINA: To preserve ancestral traditions

➤INDIA: To preserve of the caste system and

religious beliefs

➤EGYPT: To preserve religious traditions

➤PERSIA: To strengthen military traditions

Types of Education

• Moral Training/ Social Training

• Theoretical/ Religious Training

Methods of Instruction

• School work is chiefly memorization

of text, the method is direct imitation.

Agencies of Education

~ Home is the most center for most


ethical and social training. Other

agencies were pagoda, temple,

under the trees or covered sheds.

SUMERIAN EDUCATION

Education for business people

SUMERIAN EDUCATION

- were commercial people

- their king called patesi was their temporal as

well as spiritual leader

- there system of writing was cuneiform

Aims of Education

• Training scribes- trained to do ecclesiastical work in

temples mostly writing.

• Training of bookkeepers- to record their multifarious

business transactions

• Training teachers

• Training the learners to be good and to do good things

especially their god and to humanity called namlulu.

Types of Education

1. Writing Education
2. Mathematical Education

3. Language Education

4. Vocational Education

5. Professional Education

Agencies of Education

1.Home

2.School

3. Temple schools

4.Apprenticeship Schools

Methods of Instruction

• Imitation and copying

• The main work of the learners was the

preparation of tablets.

»Teacher was called School father

» Pupil was called School son

~ Flogging was the penalty of the pupil Who

failed to prepare his tablets.

The Effects

- Through the cuneiform writing, it Conserved


the early civilization’s origins besides being the

medium of instruction and commercial language

of ancient world.

Education for Public Administration

( Early Egyptian Education)

Ancient Egypt was the birthplace of one of the

world’s first civilizations. It thrived for 2, 000

years and so became one of the longest lasting

civilizations in history. The Nile River was the

life blood of the ancient Egypt.

Early Egyptian Education

(3000 B.C. – 300 B.C)

A. Aims

1. Training of Scribes

2. Religious

3. Utilitarian

4. Preservation of Cultural Patterns

B. Types of Education

1. Religious, Vocational-Professional,
Priesthood, Home Arts, Writing, Reading and

Language Education

2. Education for Public Administrations

C. Contents to be Studied

Reading, writing, language, religion, artistry,

Mathematics, astronomy, engineering,

architecture, physics, medicine, embalming,

dentistry, Saw music, arts, Physical Education

and military

Agencies of Education

1. Home

2. Temple Schools

3. Military Schools

4. Court Schools

5. Vocational Schools

Egyptian Education

• Girls were not allowed to attend school;

they learned what they needed at home

from their mothers.

• Papyrus was expensive so students

took notes on pieces of broken pottery.


Egyptian Education

• The first schools were to train priests in Egypt.

-They taught reading and writing.

• The sons of the pharaoh were educated at

home by tutors.

• Noble boys only attended school.

• They would study history,

geography, literature, religion, math,

surveying and engineering, medicine,

accounting, and legal/letter writing.

• Egyptian middle and lower class

boys did not go to school; They

learned a trade from their fathers.

Methods of Instruction

* Apprentice

* Dictation, memorization, copying or imitation,

repetition

* Observation and participation

~ Flogging was used to penalize failure to learn

Effects/Contributions

»They created the world’s first national government, basic

forms of arithmetic and a 365- day calendar.


» Development of geometrical measurement and

surveying

» Invented hieroglyphics

» Invented papyrus.

» Develop the first religions to emphasize life and death.

» Built great cities.

» Built pyramid.

The downfall of ancient Egypt

» After centuries of progress, Egypt declined

due to refusal of the priestly class to change the

accepted rules and practices. Conceptual

thinking, reasoning, creative imagination and

intellectual curiosity were foreign to them.

EDUCATION FOR

DISCIPLINE

(JEWISH

EDUCATION)

Genesis 18:19 “For I know him that he will

command his children and his household after

him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to


do justice and judgement.” same as the Old

Testament. “Train up a child in the way that he

should go, and when he is old, he will not depart

from it.” (Proverb 22:6) and “Fear of the lord is

the beginning.” (Proverb 9:10)

The Aim of Education

• Ethical and Religious

Method of Instruction

• Oral and learning by practice

• “He that spareth the rod hateth his son”

Proverb 13:24 (Discipline Versus Abuse

THE END

THANK YOU

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