History Of Education

 

Means:

FOR A SOCIETY TO SURVIVE and progress,each generation must pass its knowledge,skills and values on to the next.This process is called education.Passing on knowledge is so vital that most countries have established formal system of education for teaching children,by sending them to schools and colleges,Throughtout our lives we are also educated informally,by parents,friends,or the media.Education provides society with doctors, teachers, and scientist;gives industry a capable workforce;and helps maintain law and order by instructing people in social values.

Theories of education:

Some theories state that people learn by practice;other,that pupils must work things out themselves in order to learn;and some suggest that pupils learn by following their emotional needs and acquiring the skills and knowledge to fulfil them.

Maria Montessori:

The Italian educationlist Maria Montessori(1870 - 1952) developed teaching methods that encourage children to work things out for themselves through practical activity, rather than simply obeying instructions. She developed her ideas while working with children with learning difficulties.

Timeline:

1. c.3500 BC Sumerians invent writing.
2. 3rd century BC Greek thinker Plato(427BC - 347BC) Proposes that education should be run by the state.
3. 1524 Germen priest Martin Luther(1483 - 1546)advocates education be made avaliable for all,so that everyone is able to read the bible.
4. 1762 French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseas (1712 - 1778) arques education should prepare children to be adults.
5. 1763 Prussians introduce compulsury schooling from the ages of 5 to 13.
6. 1899 US educator John Dewey (1859 - 1952) publishes School and Society, an influential analysis of the social function of education.
7. 1945 World War II ends: with the desire to bulid a better world, many countries reform school system to make secondary education avaliable to all.
8. 1990s Education is fully recognized as vital to social and economic.