Using the Egyptian experience what are the certain conclusions that can be made on education in early civilizations.

      

Using the Egyptian experience what are the certain conclusions that can be made on education in early civilizations.

  

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Martin
1. Initially education was used as a way of cultural transmission. This was imparted informally without schools. Later the demands of society exceeded this need so it became inadequate – there led to emergence of educational institutions to meet the demanding needs. This followed in all the civilizations.

2. As knowledge explosion took place the family and society were unable to transmit knowledge for specialization needs. This gave way to formal training since early civilizations emphasized division of labour a class of teachers arose.

3. The discovery of writing played a big role towards establishment of schools reading and writing skills were valued for administrative and record keeping purposes. This meant that the limited oral tradition was eventually being replaced by recorded tradition through writing.

4. Apart from little literacy was limited to a privileged few – the royal,nobles and priest. girls were seen to be inferior so didn’t need education

5. The approach of teaching and learning was still very undeveloped e.g. memorizing and repetition were common

6. The learner was not encouraged to apply what they learnt to daily life for problem solving

7. Teachers did not explain their lessons

8. Teachers did not see failure of learning as their fault. They always blamed learners. It was said that lack of understanding was due to learners’ laziness.

9. School discipline was harsh. Education aimed at producing submissive, conforming and yet productive citizens for a cohesive society.
marto answered the question on May 17, 2019 at 06:33


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