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History of Education: Education in ancient Greece and Rome · Education in Sparta and Athens
How Sparta's state-run agoge and Athens' private teachers raised citizens, and what those two models valued.
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History of Education: When Students Hired Their Professors
From Spartan barracks to Freire's literacy circles, how schooling was invented, argued over and reinvented.
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From History of Education: Education in ancient Greece and Rome · Education in Sparta and Athens
In Athens, what was a 'paidagogos', the origin of our word 'pedagogue'?
- A state inspector of schools
- A teacher of grammar and letters
- A slave who escorted and supervised the boy
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Answer: A slave who escorted and supervised the boy
The paidagogos was usually a household slave who walked the boy to his teachers and watched over his manners; he was not himself the teacher.
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