EDUCATION IN GREECE: background and context.

History of Greek civilization. Political, social and economic context from the 5th century b.C.

During de 5th century there is an enhancement of the Greek civilization after a war and conquest of territories period.

Economy grows up its models, from simple models based on barter to little more complex models in the Currency Age.

Commerce among countries goes on, although economy centre is still being subsistence economy.

Women are completely excluded of citizenship and was thought that girls didn´t deserve of going to school. Women´s job was home tasks and taking care about their children and relatives.

The great concern of Greek polis was politics that allowed the correct and fair working of cities.

Education was for family scope. It didn´t exist a general thought about anything, so all thought scope was relegated to individuals.

This thought grows up and the philosophical interrogation appears. Individuals started to understand the need of found a logic and coherent explanation for common phenomena both the polis and the Earth.

This thought starts to be transmitted among society until everyone started to understand that Earth rules could not come at all from Gods and Demons. That became the great Greek achievement and revolution.

Nowadays every science is based on experiments and observation, it says, every logic that is thought to be an universal rule must be demonstrated through experimentation. Back to the polis age, Greeks notionalists were convinced that it was possible to get into a certain scientific affirmation through the thought scope. It was the beginning of metaphysics.

Maths, physics and biology grew up considerably. However, the main Greeks scientific achievements will become after Plato death, thanks to the named Pythagoreans Age.

A solid an extended Cosmos explanation was achieved. Greeks got into explanations of cosmos rules and planets and main corps movements as sun, moon and stars. Although all of that rules were a mistake that will be demonstrated through History, these rules allowed the enhancement of Astronomy around the world.

Thanks to Plato the most important questions of Greek philosophy were answered. The Plato´s most important work, Republic, got into a high social recognition and Plato´s thought mostly accepted in society.

Plato started to worried about education and instruction so he funded The Academy, where Aristotle studied, which it´s considered the first university in History.