Reflection # 7

According to the articles, education in ancient civilization seems quite similar to the modern today's first experience with learning. Children in Ancient Egypt imitated adult behavior just as we did when were innocent without experience. Children in ancient Egypt observed the way their parents worked, handled different responsibilities and problems, and along with skills the children learned moral attitudes, beliefs, and views of life. The boys or young men of ancient Egypt often followed in their family profession. The young girls of the family were taught how to manage their households, how to sing, dance, and play music. Girls were taught to stay more on the delicate side, while boys were trained to become men by riding horses, guiding a chariot the use of weapons, arts of war and physical education. The more wealthy families tutored their children, the only person who did not tutor their own children were the kings. As we have a certain amount of years to attend preliminary, secondary and high schooled, Ancient Egypt had no set amount of years to attend school. Ancient Egyptian temples were not a place of worship. Only the priests were worthy of having access to the inner sanctuaries. Each temple had a specific function and none was greater than the other. The priesthood education was highly authoritative with superiority of any other fields in which one could work. This is a quality of education in which Egypt shared with Mesopotamia. According to the articles formal education in Mesopotamia were mainly to train scribes and priests. I find that not hard to believe because scribes would be trained to document history and priests would lead a world of either true or false beliefs. The apprenticeship of Ancient civilization was traced back to Babylon. When a society of new inventions came about with handicrafts, families adopted sons to train them on how to rebuild or construct the same crafts in the right way because everyone has their own way of conducting and crafting different appliances.