Schools in Ancient Greece

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Schools in Ancient Greece

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At school in Ancient Greece

• only rich Greek boys went to school
• the school was called the 'gymnasium
• boys started school at 7 years old
• girls did not go to school
• girls stayed with their mothers

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Arriving at School

• the paidagogos goes to school with the boys
• he is a special slave
• he reports to the boys father

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What is the building like?

• the school is one big room
• there are no desks
• there are different lessons in different parts of
  the room

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Questions

• What was the school called in ancient Greece?
  gymkhana, gymnasium, gymslip
• Who attended school? boys only, girls only, boys
  and girls
• Who did girls spend their day with? the boys,
  their mothers, their fathers
• What is a paidagogos? a teacher, the name for a
  pencil, a slave

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