[Editor’s Note: This is the 15th in a series of blogs that examine how education developed throughout history until the present. Links to previous blogs are included at the bottom of the post.] Freidrich Wilhelm Froebel is best known as the founder of kindergarten, but his life and contribution to education went far beyond that. … Continue reading “A History of Education: European Influences on the American Educational System (Froebel)”
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A History of Education: European Influences on the American Educational System (Jan Amos Comenius)
[Editor’s Note: This is the 14th in a series of blogs that examine how education developed throughout history until the present. Links to previous blogs are included at the bottom of the post.] Jan Amos Comenius was a Protestant bishop who lived from 1592-1670 and who reformed the educational system at the time. He came … Continue reading “A History of Education: European Influences on the American Educational System (Jan Amos Comenius)”
A History of Education: The American Educational System: An Overview
[Editor’s Note: This is the 13th in a series of blogs that examine how education developed throughout history until the present. Links to previous blogs are included at the bottom of the post.] Education is a part of socialization. It’s the process by which a society teaches its population the skills, knowledge, and values they … Continue reading “A History of Education: The American Educational System: An Overview”
A History of Education: The Renaissance
[Editor’s Note: This is the 12th in a series of blogs that examine how education developed throughout history until the present.] The Middle Ages, also called the “Dark Ages,” took place between the fall of ancient Rome in 476 CE and the beginning of the 14th century. It was a time filled with war, pestilence, … Continue reading “A History of Education: The Renaissance”
A History of Education: The Islamic World: The Golden Age
[Editor’s Note: This is the 11th in a series of blogs that examine how education developed throughout history until the present. Links to previous blogs are included at the bottom of the post.] Around the 6th century CE, Europe entered the Dark Ages, which lasted from around 500 until about 1300. During this time, intellectual … Continue reading “A History of Education: The Islamic World: The Golden Age”
A History of Education: The Islamic World: Basics
[Editor’s Note: This is the 10th in a series of blogs that examine how education developed throughout history until the present. Links to previous blogs are included at the bottom of the post.] From its inception, Islam has placed a high premium on education and has enjoyed a long, rich intellectual tradition as a result. … Continue reading “A History of Education: The Islamic World: Basics”
A History of Education: The Olmecs and the Maya
[Editor’s Note: This is the 9th in a series of blogs that examine how education developed throughout history until the present. Links to previous blogs are included at the bottom of the post.] Unlike in the other three areas of the world where writing arose independently, writing in Mesoamerica didn’t start as a means of … Continue reading “A History of Education: The Olmecs and the Maya”
A History of Education: China
[Editor’s Note: This is the 8th in a series of blogs that examine how education developed throughout history until the present. Links to previous blogs are included at the bottom of the post.] Between 3000-2500 BCE, the period during which the Semitic alphabet arose in the West, the Chinese developed a very different writing system … Continue reading “A History of Education: China”
A History of Education: The Greek Philosophers
[Editor’s Note: This is the 7th in a series of blogs that examine how education developed throughout history until the present. Links to previous blogs are included at the bottom of the post.] No discussion of the history of education would be complete without contemplating the ancient Greek philosophers, upon whose work many modern ideas … Continue reading “A History of Education: The Greek Philosophers”
A History of Education: Ancient Greece and Rome
[Editor’s Note: This is the 6th in a series of blogs that examine how education developed throughout history until the present. Links to previous blogs are included at the bottom of the post.] The Greeks inherited their written language from the Phoenicians, who inherited it from the Sumerians. But before the 5th century BCE, no … Continue reading “A History of Education: Ancient Greece and Rome”