Higher Education In Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece higher education is the headstream and basis of Europe higher education.Ancient Greece higher education has profound social, economic, political and cultural and education background. From BC 500 to BC 337 is the classical Greek era. This period is also the golden age of Greek general education development. The higher education in ancient Greece began during this period.Ancient Greece higher education is the product of the ancient Greece material and spiritual prosperity, so its formation is later than democratic politics. The 5th century BC is the period of ancient Greek democratic prosperity, and the formation of ancient Greece higher education was in the 4th century BC. When the ancient Greek city-states began crisis and entered the Hellenistic period, Ancient Greek higher education was slowly developing.The formation of the Ancient Greece higher education has a process from budding to shaping. The Rhetoric school was the infancy of the Ancient Greece higher education, and then Plato School is the mark of the Ancient Greece higher education formation. Aristotle's School, as well as the Universities established during the period of Greece and Rome may be regarded as the developing stage of ancient Greek higher education. The Ancient Greek higher education was forced to withdraw from the history stage until Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire.The characteristics of Ancient Greek higher education are as follows: the first is "full harmony" of higher education; and the other is training students for political objective, the third is heuristic education; the last one is philosophy throughout the education.Ancient Greece higher education has a great influence on the higher education of later generations.