How education has changed through the time?

Education in ancient civilizations Context : With the gradual rise of more complex civilizations in the river valleys of Egypt and Babylonia, knowledge became too complicated to transmit directly from person to person and from generation to generation. Education was possible thanks to the invention of writing (3100 BC) that allowed the raise of trade, government and formal religion. Aims : To be able to function in complex societies, man needed some way of accumulating, recording, and preserving his cultural heritage, this was made to be teached in the future to the other kids and people. Education has 3 objectives, ethic, intellectual and biologica l Methodology : For example, in the ancient Egypt the methodology was memorization, and the motivation was the fear of harsh physical discipline. On an ancient Egyptian clay tablet discovered by archaeologists, a child had written: "Thou didst beat me and knowledge entered my head." In Greece, they used to study ...