Education in ancient Greece

    The ancient Greeks were great builders and thinkers. Their ideas still influence(影响) us today, especially in the art, science, literature and philosophy. But school for boys and girls in ancient Greece was very dfrom today.

    School for boys

    Boys in ancient Greece stayed at home when they were young. They helped their parents work and had hlike fishing and sailing. At the age of six or seven, most of them started to go to school. They studied philosophy and hto play the lyre (a kind of musical instrument). They also studied other subjects, but they did not use many books. Most of what they lwas said out loud and memorized.

    School for girls

    In most places in ancient Greece, girls did not go to school. They stayed at home and learned ftheir mothers. Girls were not allowed to go outside the house much. H, things were different for girls in a part of Greece called Sparta. Girls there went to military(军事的) school where they learned how to wrestle and fight! This was to prepare them for joining the a. Girls in Sparta were allowed to go outside the house a lot more.