How Did Ancient Greek Culture Influence Our Education

The ancient Greeks have made many new advances in their lifetime. The ancient Greek culture has influenced many other cultures as well. Other cultures saw how well the Greeks were doing and wanted to share the wealth. They would take concepts of the Greeks and form it into their own. The Romans took concepts from the Greek such as the Greek gods; Romans made the Greek gods’ names into Roman names. The ancient Greeks contributed to the advances and discoveries in education, architecture and government.
The Greeks try to achieve perfection in both their mind and body so through education they are perfecting their minds. The Greeks have influenced our education systems through how they are set up and also by some of the things that we learn in …show more content…
By having boys go to school at age seven and girls not attending school and learning the roles of the house.(Pearson 56) These cultures are mostly found in less developed countries and extreme religious areas. The boys who attended learned reading, writing, and arithmetic. They also learned music and how to play an instrument, memorize poetry and the art of debating. Which is similar to the things we still learn today. For example, Pythagoras was a man of math, science and philosophy. Pythagoras never wrote about the contributions he has made in mathematics but his students, known as Pythagoreans, gave him credit for all his accomplishments. The biggest contribution of Pythagoras is the Pythagorean Theorem; this is important because the Pythagorean Theorem is still taught in most math classes today. He also made discoveries such as: the five regular solids, construction of given areas and geometrical algebra. Pythagoras thought the stars, planets, and universes were round because a sphere was the best solid figure. He was also one of the first philosophers to state that the earth is a sphere and that the earth revolves around the sun(Brunschwig 721). Euclid is important