Early Greek

Education
Presented by:
JERRICA F. ARAZA
What we'll discuss
Early Greek Education

System
Contributions to

Modern Education
 "Educate the children
and it won't be necessary
to punish the men."
Pythagoras
Early Greek Education System
Aimed to produce good citizens
Has no centralized educational system
Shaped by the geographic location and

culture of each city-state

Two forms of education: formal and

informal
Early Greek Educational System
Access to education was determined by gender

and class.
Teachers were either educated slaves or tutors

hired out for a fee.

Education was thought of as preparation for war

and membership in the upper classes.

Focused heavily on training the entire person:

education of mind, body and imagination

Early Greek Education
Levels of education: Basic education,

secondary, and higher education in

Academy or Lyceum
Girls were taught informally and were

geared towards domesticity.

Contributions to Modern Education
Socratic questioning and Socratic method of teaching
Philosophy, rhetoric, and geometry
Plato's Academy provided a model for universities

and social and scientific academies that developed

later.
Aristotle's concept of true knowledge acquisition
Pythagorean Theorem
Fundamental concepts in materialism, rationalism,

metaphysics, idealism, empiricism, and ethics

Thank you for

listening!