Diverse school systems
After reading the article about the Sumerian school system, I realized we owe our form of education to them. Their system went above the normal Egyptian school system. The Egyptian school system was a closed system, where only the wealthy and powerful members of the Egyptian society were able to receive an education. The education their son’s were to receive were only basic reading and writing skills, the school offers no further education. The kids are enrolled into the school at age five and by the time they reached the age of eleven, they were to be graduates and ready to take their perspective jobs, some were sent to work directly for the king and members of his kingdom and others worked for generals to document their victories and keep track of the amount of soldiers. The Egyptian system were mainly preparing their student to serve, they were not offered any further educational progress. The system that was the closest to modern day educational system would have to be the Mesopotamians, because their system also thought some of the same things as the Egyptians, but they also went beyond the basic reading and writing. Their system was more advance in the subjects they thought, subjects such as mathematics, science, astrology, medicine and botany. The most advance school system is the Sumerian school system, not only does it teaches the same discipline as the Egyptian and Mesopotamians, the Sumerian’s system was not governed by the king, therefore the school was independent, this made it an open system, where they will enroll anyone as long as they were able to pay the tuition, it was still an all male system. This system is the first time teachers were being paid a salary and this salary they were receiving came from the tuition the student’s families were paying to the school father.
The Sumerians were also responsible for setting the structure of the school and assign responsibilities to each faculty member. They also had a more refined system, each person in that system had a title and responsibilities, starting with the father of the school or in today’s term would be principal; he is the overseer of the entire school, he is in charge of the lesson plans, student enrolments, and paying the salaries, after him was the school’s big brother and in today’s term is the vice principal, his duties would include a more administrative type responsibilities, he passes on the lesson plans prepared by the school father to the teachers and also to sit in and grade the student’s in the reciting and presentation of their lessons, next came the teachers their duties were to present the student’s with the lessons and show them how to write and read and listen to view their work, lastly is the sons of the schools or students their duties were to listen and practice their writing and reading skills and prepare to recite their lessons. Because the Sumerians believe that the key to learning is memorization, students were not only supposed to write their lesson, they were expected to remember everything and be able to recall them at a moment’s notice.
As we can clearly see, each system is evolving from the previous, this is to ensure each generation that comes after has something new to offer, we never suppose to remain in the same system forever, as people become more and more intelligent and curious we have to find new ways to satisfy that curiosity this is when progress takes place.
After reading the article about the Sumerian school system, I realized we owe our form of education to them. Their system went above the normal Egyptian school system. The Egyptian school system was a closed system, where only the wealthy and powerful members of the Egyptian society were able to receive an education. The education their son’s were to receive were only basic reading and writing skills, the school offers no further education. The kids are enrolled into the school at age five and by the time they reached the age of eleven, they were to be graduates and ready to take their perspective jobs, some were sent to work directly for the king and members of his kingdom and others worked for generals to document their victories and keep track of the amount of soldiers. The Egyptian system were mainly preparing their student to serve, they were not offered any further educational progress. The system that was the closest to modern day educational system would have to be the Mesopotamians, because their system also thought some of the same things as the Egyptians, but they also went beyond the basic reading and writing. Their system was more advance in the subjects they thought, subjects such as mathematics, science, astrology, medicine and botany. The most advance school system is the Sumerian school system, not only does it teaches the same discipline as the Egyptian and Mesopotamians, the Sumerian’s system was not governed by the king, therefore the school was independent, this made it an open system, where they will enroll anyone as long as they were able to pay the tuition, it was still an all male system. This system is the first time teachers were being paid a salary and this salary they were receiving came from the tuition the student’s families were paying to the school father.
The Sumerians were also responsible for setting the structure of the school and assign responsibilities to each faculty member. They also had a more refined system, each person in that system had a title and responsibilities, starting with the father of the school or in today’s term would be principal; he is the overseer of the entire school, he is in charge of the lesson plans, student enrolments, and paying the salaries, after him was the school’s big brother and in today’s term is the vice principal, his duties would include a more administrative type responsibilities, he passes on the lesson plans prepared by the school father to the teachers and also to sit in and grade the student’s in the reciting and presentation of their lessons, next came the teachers their duties were to present the student’s with the lessons and show them how to write and read and listen to view their work, lastly is the sons of the schools or students their duties were to listen and practice their writing and reading skills and prepare to recite their lessons. Because the Sumerians believe that the key to learning is memorization, students were not only supposed to write their lesson, they were expected to remember everything and be able to recall them at a moment’s notice.
As we can clearly see, each system is evolving from the previous, this is to ensure each generation that comes after has something new to offer, we never suppose to remain in the same system forever, as people become more and more intelligent and curious we have to find new ways to satisfy that curiosity this is when progress takes place.
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