Reflection # 9

According to the Article The first Schools, the Sumerians were the first scribes to teach formal schools at about 3000 B.C. The Sumerians invented the form of writing called the cuneiform. The cuneiform of writing consists of pictographs on clay tablets. These tablets consisted of more than a thousand small pictograph. There were also lists of words found they were used for studying and practicing. During the times of the first Sumerian schools, there were different scribes. There were Junior, High, highly specialized, temple scribes and more. Such scribes became leaders in the Government. Most Sumerians that went to school came from wealthy families. The poor families could barely afford to send their kids to school. Teachers were paid from student tuition's. The head of the Sumerian school was called the untmia, translated as the expert, professor or the school father.

In Ancient Egypt children learned by imitating their elders. More than often children grew up learning the trade in which their parents worked in. For instance, as the children grew older they were worked the fields, farms, vineyards, and any other work areas that they had bee trained to work in. So in other words they continued the family trade. Parents, in Ancient Egyptian times were their children's teachers they taught them mostly everything. Moral values such as what they should believe in and the way they should view their life and lifestyles and even their behaviors and attitudes were taught by parents. Especially their thoughts and attitudes towards religion and their deities. Teaching you children the family business was very important to the Ancient Egyptians. If the parents had no children and they wished to adopt, then they had to teach them the family business. The young men did not choose their own career, but instead they followed the family profession and with the blessings of the King they could even become workers for the royalty. The girls in the family were trained how to become wives basically. They were trained to manage households, sing, dance and play musical instruments.

There are so much more new techniques in our time. Students today go through out the first thirteen years of their lives in school that they don't even have to pay for. Technology today even allows students today to go to school online. We have computers in school that students have access to, and programs on computers to help students achieve higher standards in different subjects.