Schooling Long Ago
[RE children of classical Greece went to school too. Maybe their lessons would appeal to you-they learnt no science, no foreign languages, practically no history or mathematics. There were just three subjectsletters, music and physical training. Physical training, consisting of running, jumping, wrestling and gymnastics, was given every afternoon after lunch. Other school lessons were taken in the morning. Always at sunrise you would see the boys on their way to school. The master sat in the middle of the room on a high chair while the boys stood round him or sat round him or sat on stools. He didn’t write with white chalk on a black-board, but with black chalk on a white-board! Or should we call it a white blackboard? The boys practised writing on slates-only they weren’t made of slate, but of wax, and could be smoothed over when they were to be used again. Later on the boys were allowed to use papyrus — the sort of paper that the Egyptians had, you retnember? After school days were over, at the age of 18, all boys were given 2 years’ strenuous military and naval training so that they . would be ready to defend their city against hostile states-("Children Through the Ages: Ancient Greece (2)" by "Ariel," 2YA Children’s hour, April 2.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 98, 9 May 1941, Page 5
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218Schooling Long Ago New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 98, 9 May 1941, Page 5
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