Spartan Education Dbq

Since Sparta was small, their main way to remain powerful was military strength therefore, their education was based on military disciplines. “A Spartiate’s son was nurtured by his parents only until he was seven years old. At that age he was removed from his family and, from his eighth to his twenty-first year, he was educated by the state according to rigorous [military-like]

The next factor that aided Sparta’s rise was the rigorous military training. A Spartan’s training began as an infant. The Gerousia, a Spartan council of elders, inspected every Spartan baby . Any child that was deemed weak, deformed, or sick would be left at mount Taygetus to die . Once the rest of the surviving children turned seven years old, they would be put into the agoge . The agoge was the rigorous military training that every Spartan man had to pass through before they became full Spartan

Although education in Sparta had many weaknesses, but there were still some strengths. Kids were prepared for a lot of things, like hunger and harsh weather. They were taught to be obedient and they got a lot of exercise. All these strengths were also achieved through harsh ways. Education in Sparta has many more weaknesses than strengths since the way the strengths were achieved were weaknesses themselves.

This gave them a sense of equality showing that women were just as capable as men. Not only did they not belittle women but they also trusted that if something happened to them during the war they would still be capable of taking care of Sparta just as much as the men were able to. Even if something did happen to the soldiers the women were treated at the same level as the men meaning they were still capable of going to war too. They didn't only treat women the same, but they were also taught, "to have regard for all older men" (D). They believed that even if you were old and puny you were still wiser than them and that you should be respected.

Even as a child, the male Spartan was treated very harshly, even to the point where it would be considered abuse in the modern society. Once born, the infant was tested in order to declare a life of war or slavery upon him. But unfortunately, some of them don’t get to live. These, either mentally or physically damaged children, are thrown into a chasm near Mount Taygetus. The strongest infants are given back to their families, but are under the military’s control at age seven. Within years, the Spartan boys would take part in the brutal wars, fighting for the ownership of Sparta, as many other kings seek to take over the land and claim it as their own.

Education of Spartan girls did not differ much from the boy’s education. The ability was equally distributed between the genders, and all sessions were available to men and women. This idea can be seen in all the major philosophical writings of that time. Girls are taught to run, jump, fight, throw discs and darts. The complexity of exercises for girls was not inferior to boy’s exercises. According to Lycurgus, young girls had to be physically fit in order to give birth to healthy and strong babies. This was the main purpose of Spartan women – produce worthy generation. (Plut. Lyc. 14.2) Since the young age girls were conditioned and trained to do just that. Lycurgus freed Spartan girls form strict home supervision and instead, as it usually happens in other Greek cities, to sit at the loom in anticipation of marriage, ordered them to strengthen their bodies on a par with boys. In addition, the Spartan girls could fight with weapons in their hands because when Spartan men went to war, their wives and daughters had to repel the attacks of the Helot

Apparently in Sparta both genders are treated equally then if someone who were to live in Athens as a woman. When living in Athens as a girl or a boy, the boy was preferred more over then the girl. The way the society was built they saw women as house wives and fertile beings. “A boy child was considered of much more value than a girl.” These men saw this gender basically as “tools and instrument.” They didn’t see them as anything more other than just teaching the children some education, showing the slaves how to sew, make sure the house looks presentable when the husband comes back from long day of work and have dinner ready for family to eat at end of the day. In Sparta if you were a child of either gender you weren’t thought of being lesser or greater than the other gender. Women were thought as mother just like the Athenians but Sparta portrayed both genders that played a special role in the society. From a young age girls were not married off once they hit puberty because Sparta believed that to have a healthy child you should value the female body and enforced girls to join in sports like the guys. “Are portrayed in training for motherhood and athletics.” ¬The reason they valued the female body is because to have a healthy boy you need to have a healthy female body. They used males to serve in the army when time comes to fight a war. For these both genders living in these two city states some had more rights than other if being a

Instead, Sparta thought that women were humans, and deserved similar rights to the men. Due to this, women received some basic military training as a child. Women also were treated with much more respect than the slaves in Sparta (unlike in Athens). Women were also given the right to choose to leave their husband and marry another if he was at war for too long. In Sparta women could also own land and cattle, they could not in almost any other place in Greece at the time. Being a girl this is an amazing incentive to living in

Spartan boys were raised with the sole purpose of becoming great warriors. When a Spartan boy was born, he was examined by a committee of inspectors to determine whether or not they were strong enough to be Spartan citizens. If the baby was considered weak or unfit, it would be thrown off of a mountain. If he was deemed fit, at age 7 he was taken from his mother and sent off to live in military barracks to be trained to be soldiers. The education was aimed to create military proficiency. Very few boys were

Spartan society was a harsh place to live. As it was a military-heavy state, the citizens were constantly training and preparing themselves for war. The children went to military school at the age of 7 where they were treated brutally by their teachers, elder students, and even their peers. The punishments in Sparta often were cruel by today’s standards and in most civilizations. They often led to the Spartans dying young.

The strengths out way the weakness of Sparta’s education because it makes a strong society, they learn to respect elders, and learn to have passion in what you are doing. Spartan fathers were forced to bring they kids to inspection. If the baby's passed the inspection they were kept “if not, they ordered it to be exposed” (Document A)This is kind of like their form of natural selection; getting rid of the weak makes them build a strong society essentially having no weak people. Being in the training that they were in make them respect their elders. They were trained to “... not only to respect their own fathers and to be obedient to them, but have regard for all the older men, to make room for them on

In the article Duckworth states, “As an Athenian one could get a good education, and could pursue several kinds of arts and sciences.” On the other hand if you were a Spartan boy you would be taken away at the age of seven to join a military school. The Spartan boys would not get an education on anything except on how to battle. As if that wasn't enough Duckworth states.

No shoes, one garment of clothes for a year, limited food, and lack of knowledge and family is what Spartan boys experienced starting at age seven. Spartan education was focused on primarily war and tough conditions. The boys had no shoes and limited food because the generals thought the cruel rules would have the boys ready for any condition. The strengths of Spartan education did not outweigh the weaknesses for these three reasons: health and conditions, ethics, and training and teaching.

The Spartan system is horrible! Spartan boys are taken to military school at the age of 6. Spartan boys are only taught to read and write so that they can send and receive messages during war. This is a disgusting reason to be teaching children literacy. Spartan girls are taught how to become warriors. They are taught how to use weapons, fight and kill. Being young girls they

Sparta is one of the many city-states of Ancient Greece. This civilization was sought out to be one of the most powerful, and no one took their weaknesses into account. Sparta had abused most of their civilians, even their own children were. This civilization had even gone as far as to punish their young boys as well as many other civilians, as well as some ceremonies that endangered their lives This type of abuse had only gone so far. The Spartans had also banned all forms of foreign education, limiting the amount of education the young boys and girls had.These young boys, who had been taken from their homes and families around the age of eight, had endured brutal battle training. The Spartans had even encouraged stealing, but as soon as they messed up they were whipped to the point of death. For the reasons above, the strengths do not outweigh the weakness.