Any society that abuses children deserves to crumble. The ancient Greek city-state always abused their children because they thought it would make them stronger. Sparta had only lasted 300 years. The reasoning is because they only cared for war. The weaknesses of the Spartan abuse did outweigh any strength. The weaknesses of Spartan education outweighed the strengths because they lacked the properties of education, the Spartans were isolated and forced families to separate from their children at a young age, and they were very abusive to their children. It all started in 404 BCE, where Spartans lacked the properties of education. Document A states, “Only the rudiments [basics] of reading and writing were taught; instruction consisted for the
