And who had the great idea?

lmrey (60)in #steempress • 6 years ago (edited)

Some time ago my children asked me who came up with the brilliant idea of inventing school, as some children call it. Since my son began his school term, that question is repetitive every morning on the way to school, because he has problems getting up early and does not like going to school. For this reason, I have decided to investigate and extract more relevant points from the origin of public education, with the intention of providing this information to my son, because I have armed myself with strategies to explain it and that I can see the importance of going through school.

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So that you see your stay at school as a learning opportunity that will help you in the rest of your life.

Turning to the subject, the word school comes from the Greek word Skholé and the Latin Schola. For thousands of years ago teaching was taught within the family, but when men invented writing, they had to change the teaching system.

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In ancient Egypt only a few people learned to read and write: write it down. However, little by little the teaching was extended until the elementary schools were established, which worked in the porches of the temples. They taught language and writing.

Both in Persia and in Babylon, the students lived with their teachers. Can you imagine what it would be like to live with your language teacher? It sounds horrible!. Similarly, in Babylon, the notebooks were clay tablets. An entire effort was to write in this table!
There were also schools in China, India, Greece, and Rome, but only a privileged few came to them.

In Athens, the children of free citizens went to public schools from the age of seven, which is great news for my son, because at present, the child starts his schooling stage from the age of five.

Later, in the Middle Ages, most of the European schools were in charge of the Catholic Church. Emperor Charlemagne gave great impetus to the teaching by ordering the bishops to establish schools, called cathedrals. The children of poor families came to these schools. Where Charlemagne himself founded a school in his palace, where he went daily with the children to learn to write with them. Can you imagine the President, studying in the courtyard of the Government Palace with the children? What fun!

Previously, in schools, they taught only 3 or 4 courses, not like now that they have secondary education, universities or higher education centers, institutes, and academies, meaning that children have many to learn. Likewise, at that time it was thought that only children should attend school, they had the idea that girls did not need any other education than what they received from their mothers, that is, they needed to know how to cook, sew, wash and take care of the house. Thankfully, everything has evolved and education is free for both sex, but women would have missed reading letters, poems, novels, and newspapers or just writing in our journal.

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Nowadays, education, going to school, is a right that our children have, although they are so lazy to get up early and do homework. It is important to instruct the child about the teachings they will receive at school and, above all, to understand that what they have learned every day will serve to transmit this knowledge to future generations.