History of Education: When Students Hired Their Professors
From Spartan barracks to Freire's literacy circles, how schooling was invented, argued over and reinvented.
History of Education · 50 questions
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1. The word 'school' comes from the Greek scholē. What did scholē originally mean?
- Leisure
- Discipline
- Gathering
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Answer: Leisure
Scholē meant free time: only people with leisure, freed from work, could spend it on study and discussion.
2. In ancient Athens, who was the paidagogos, the origin of our word 'pedagogue'?
- An enslaved attendant who escorted boys
- A philosopher who taught rhetoric
- A state-paid teacher of grammar
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Answer: An enslaved attendant who escorted boys
The paidagogos was usually an enslaved man who walked a boy to his teachers and supervised his manners; he was not the teacher himself.
3. How did Spartan boys' education differ from that of Athenian boys?
- Families chose private tutors for them
- It began only after age fourteen
- The state took them from about age seven
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Answer: The state took them from about age seven
Sparta's agoge removed boys from their homes around seven for state-run military training, while Athens left schooling to families.
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