the education of the youth. Children yearn to please their instructors. Therefore, when all

children throughout a society are taught a certain way to live and think, the society itself

models these values instilled upon the children. when they grow upNaturally, when using

the history of the Ancient Greeks, focus falls upon its two major city-states,

Athens and Sparta. As in almost every aspect of comparison, the difference

between the education of the warlike Spartans compared to the education of

the philosophical Athenians is like comparing black to white. The main focus

a Spartan education was not to focus on literacy. Instead, as a result of the

system of helotry practiced in Sparta, fitness, obedience, and courage had to

taught in order for the Spartans to retain the militaristic supremacy that they

had over the rest of the Peloponnesus. In contrast, an Athenian education was

devoted to the three basic categories of literacy, music, an

in need of resources: They invaded their neighbors, the Messenians, and after

for battle. However, the Athenians were far more educated by today’s

unnatural field of killing. As always, every event mandated by the state was

system brought them. In a society that only offered respect and glory from

so that when the time came, they would also become leaders in the army.

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