... seventeen and twenty, the most gifted children are chosen to participate in only physical and military training. These years are so physically strenuous that they will have no time to study. During their twentieth year the most outstanding are chosen to pursue their education. Plato claims that their education must be aimed toward drawing their souls "away from the world of ... it leads to a better understanding of the idea of good. Third, solid geometry because it is a necessary prerequisite for the understanding of physics and astronomy. Fourth, astronomy which includes the study of ph...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... the family was wealthy and they wanted their daughter(s) to being educated, governess was hired to teach girls. If they were lucky, they were taught to read in order to study the Bible. They were also taught to read and write to record household expressions. Sometimes girls were taught social etiquette, music, needlework, cooking, and nursing. Usually they were just taught ... necessary and was not able to cover some core concepts. Some of the classes Beecher taught her students include philosophy, chemistry, ancient and modern history, geography, grammar, rhetoric, arithmetic, algebra,...

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• Grade Level: High School