Preliminary Exploration Of Greece School In Classical Age

Ancient Greece school in the classical age was the delegate of the entire ancient Greece school , it contained the most of school types and extended the types. The dissertation aims to summarize its characteristic and history infection, through analyzing history foundation of school in the Greece classical age. The dissertation comprises three chapters besides the prologue and the epilogue.The first part has analyzed the historical foundation and condition of producing schools. Ancient Greece school accrued in the ancient Greece history and the national spirit. When ancient Greek entered into class society, society condition and spirit life and enlarged scope of Greece laid foundations for producing ancient Greece school. Ancient Greece school began with hero age, which wanted noble's children to fight with courage and to be eloquent. School catered to this aim. In Archaic age, Athens and Sparta construed two kinds of schools, because of their different nature and social conditions. In addition, Pythagoras and his school was the example of the later schools.The second part has discussed the Greece school of classical age. The dissertation has analyzed reason of development of schools from politics and economy two aspects. Sophists, Isocrates, Plato and Aristotle were main thinkers of this time. The sophists'theory has dissimilarity in many aspects, but they have the same occupation, research content and the educational thought. The dissertation brought sophists'educational actions into school system, through analyzing sophists'educational thought and their practice. Isocrates' rhetoric school was the base for training orators. Plato's Academy was the primacy institution of education and research in Europe. The dissertation set forth the importance of Plato's Academy in Greek and in the west, through analyzing his teaching subjects, training aim and characteristic. Aristotle followed his teacher, Plato, built school. Penman analyzed his harmonious educational theory, which includes natural adaptability principia and phases educational thought mostly. The thinkers'education and practice enriched and developed the schools of classical age.The third part summarized the characteristics of Greece school of classical time and history infection to schools in Hellenic age. Penman summed up the specialty of schools of classical age, through analyzing the different class and types schools of classical era. Philosophy became the center of subject system in this time, because of the prominence of Philosophy schools. This subject system adapted to ancient Greece society, and laid foundation for training rulers and eligible citizens. Hellenic schools continued schools of the classical age, besides stress, liberal education received good graces this time. Epicurus' school and stoic's school became the important part in the school system in the Hellenic age. The conclusion has narrated entirely the procession of generation, variation and development of ancient Greece school. Material culture accumulation of ancient Greece and schools of Sparta and Athens and Pythagoras' school were the base and condition of classical age schools. Political and economy of classical age influenced school's change; however it was very important that lots of philosophers appeared that time, senior schools originated by them perfected Greece school. Characteristic Greece school had important influence to Hellenic schools.