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To teach group survival skills and group cohesiveness
-survival skills such as hunting, fishing, food gathering -informal education to transmit skills and values, children imitated adults |
Preliterate societies
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To prepare elite officials to govern the empire according to Confucian principles
-memorization and recitation of classic texts -influenced: written exams of civic service |
China
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To learn behaviors and rituals based on Vedas
-memorizing and interpreting sacred texts |
India
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To prepare priest-scribes to administer the empire
-memorizing and copying dictated texts -influence: restriction of educational controls, use of education to prepare bureaucracies |
Egypt
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To cultivate civic responsibility and identification with city-state and to develop well rounded persons
-reading, writing, arthmetic, drama, music, PE, poetry -influence: the concept of the well-rounded liberal arts education |
Greek- Athens
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To train soldiers and military leaders
-drill, military songs, and tactics -influence: the concept of serving the military state |
Greek- Sparta
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To develop civic responsibility for republic and then empire, to develop administrative and military skills
-reading, writing, arithmetic, laws of 12 tables, law, philosophy -influence: education for practical administrative skills, civic responsibility |
Roman
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To cultivate religious commitment to Islamic beliefs, to develop expertise in mathmatics, medicine, and science
-reading, writing, math, religious literature, science -influence: reentry of classical materials on science and medicine |
Arabic
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To develop religious commitment, knowledge, and ritual, to prepare persons for appropriate roles in a hierarchical society
-reading, writing, arithmetic, liberal arts, philosophy, theology, military tactics -influence: universities as higher learning |
Medieval
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To cultivate humanist experts in the classics (Greek and Latin), to prepare courtiers for service to dynastic leaders
-latin, greek, classical lit, poetry -analysis of greek and roman classics -influence: emphasis on lit knowledge, and 2 track system of schools |
Renaissance
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