NORTHWESTERN VISAYAN COLLEGE

Graduate Studies
Tangalan MAED Learning Center
Tangalan, Aklan
SUBJECT:
TOPIC: EDUC. 200
Foundations
Historical Foundations of Education of Education

A. PRIMITIVE EDUCATION
B. SUMERIAN EDUCATION
C. EARLY EGYPTIAN
EDUCATION
MR. JESSE BEREBER
Professor
 Objective

To give us
knowledge of the
past educational
system.
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Primitive
Education

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 Life was very simple
• Their means of livelihood were hunting and
gathering wild fruits and vegetables
• They lived in huts
• Organization was tribal and usually headed
by the oldest or wisest among members
• There was no reading or writing
• Information was transmitted through word
of mouth, songs, gestures, ceremonial rites
and the like.
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PRIMITIVE EDUCATION:

AIMS OF PRIMITIVE EDUCATION

1. Security and Survival
• Natural Disaster
• Wild Animals
• Evil spirits
• Hunger
• Other tribes
2. Conformity
3. Preservation and transmission of
traditions
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PRIMITIVE EDUCATION:

TYPES OF EDUCATION
1. Vocational (basic necessity)
2. Religious (animistic)

CONTENT TO BE STUDIED
1. Ways of procuring the basic
necessities in life and of protecting
life from dangers.
2. Superstitions.

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PRIMITIVE EDUCATION:

AGENCIES OF EDUCATION
• Home
• Environment

ORGANIZATION OF GRADES
• None

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PRIMITIVE EDUCATION:

METHODS OF INSTRUCTION
• All instruction was done informally
• Observation and imitation
• Simple telling and demonstration
• Participation

FINANCING
• None

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PRIMITIVE EDUCATION:

OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION
TO EDUCATION

The primitive man started the

rudiments of education from
which evolved the modern
educational systems of today.

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Sumerian
Education

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Most education took place in a temple, associated
with a priest. Education for wealthy families, studied
and worked from sun up to sun down. Sumerians
only focused on studying complex grammar, and
practiced writing. Most, if not all Sumerian students
were male. The greater part of the students came
from the more wealthy families; the poor could
hardly afford the cost and the time which a
prolonged education demanded.

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SUMERIAN EDUCATION:

AIMS OF SUMERIAN EDUCATION

• Training of scribes
• Training of bookkeepers
• Training of teachers
• Training of learners to be good

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 SUMERIAN EDUCATION:

TYPES OF EDUCATION
1. Writing education (cuneiform)
2. Mathematical education (low digit counting)
3. Language education
4. Vocational education
5. Professional education
6. Art education

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 SUMERIAN EDUCATION:
CONTENT TO BE STUDIED
1. Reading, writing, little arithmetic
2. Astronomy for predicting the planting
and reaping
3. Architecture, agriculture, and hydraulics
4. Jewelry designing
5. Carpentry, ship building, smithing
6. Some simple rules and regulations to be
obeyed were taught and followed by
the people in their conduct of their daily
life
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 SUMERIAN EDUCATION:
AGENCIES OF EDUCATION
• Home
• School
• Temple school
• Apprentice schools
ORGANIZATION OF GRADES
• There were already organized classes
• There was higher education for
• the professions. Education was
• not universal.
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SUMERIAN EDUCATION:

METHODS OF INSTRUCTION
• Imitation and copying
• Preparation of tablets
FINANCING
• It is not clear whether the students
paid tuition fees or not but most
probably the students paid certain
amounts.

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SUMERIAN EDUCATION:

OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION
TO EDUCATION

Sumerian's outstanding
contribution to education and
especially to civilization was its
cuneiform writing.

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 Early
Egyptian
Education

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• Government was autocratic ruled by a king
called Pharaoh
• Egyptians were polytheistic
• They worshipped the sun god, Ra or Amon
Ra and Osiris who judge the dead; Horus,
god of day; Set, their Satan
• They were firm believers in life after death
that’s why they build many temples.

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EARLY EGYPTIAN EDUCATION:

AIMS OF EARLY EGYPTIAN EDUCATION

• Training of scribes
• Religious
• Utilitarian
• Preservation of cultural patterns

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EARLY EGYPTIAN EDUCATION:

TYPES OF EDUCATION
1. Religious education
2. Vocational-professional education
3. Military education
4. Education for public administration
5. Priesthood education
6. Home arts education
7. Writing, reading, and language education.

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EARLY EGYPTIAN EDUCATION:
CONTENT TO BE STUDIED
1. Reading, writing, and language
2. Religious and secular literature
3. Artistry in metals and lapidary
4. Mathematics, especially geometry and surveying.
5. Subjects in astronomy, engineering, architecture,
physics, medicine, embalming, dentistry, and law
were taught in the temple schools by the priests.
6. Music, dancing, playing instruments and clapping to
rhythm.
7. Sports, games, and physical education with
swimming, wrestling, archery
8. The military schools offered training in the use of
the bow and arrow, battle ax, lance, mace, and
shield.
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EARLY EGYPTIAN EDUCATION:

AGENCIES OF EDUCATION
• Home
• Temple schools
• Military schools
• Court schools
• Vocational schools

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EARLY EGYPTIAN EDUCATION:

ORGANIZATION OF GRADES
• The young studied at home.
• Mother as teacher
• At age 5, boys attended the reading
and writing schools under the priests
if the parents could afford to pay the
school fees.
• At 17, boys entered the schools that
offered their vocations.

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EARLY EGYPTIAN EDUCATION:
METHODS OF INSTRUCTION
• Apprenticeship
• Dictation, memorization,
• copying, imitation, repetition.
• Observation and participation

FINANCING
• The students had to pay a
• certain amount of school fees
• even in the lower schools
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EARLY EGYPTIAN EDUCATION:

OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION
TO EDUCATION

Geometrical
measurement
and surveying.
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“We’ve learned from the past to
become better in the future.”
-unknown

THANK YOU!

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