education in primitive societies

2. FOUNDATION OF
EDUCATION

3. Presentation No 01
Education in Primitive societies
Presented to: Mrs Farzana Yousaf
Presented by: Farwa Naz
Fareeha Ilyas

4. To give us a knowledge of the
past;
To enable us to better understand
the future; and
To give us a means of predicting
the future.
The three (3) – fold purpose of history:

5. Education
"Education is something which makes man
self-reliant and selfless".
(Rigved)
"Nothing is more purifying on earth than
wisdom.“
(Bhagavad Gita)

6. Purposes of Education
 Enlightment
 Knowledge development
 Environment
 Wholesome development
 Personality development
 Transformation
 Life with value
 Leadership
 Create vision

7. PRIMITIVE
EDUCATION

8. Primitive education strives to secure the continued existence of
the group by restricting the activities of its members.
Primitive Education is Relatively Simple Mans’ activities are to
feed, clothe, shelter and protect himself and those dependent to
him.
Over the centuries, millions of men and women (the first
teachers) passed on their collective From various multicultural
threads, the basis of our educational history has gradually
emerged.
These threads come from the ancient Egyptians, the Greek, the
Hindus, and the Chinese. Knowledge and skills to the next
generation.

9. Types
Two (2) types of primitive education:
1. Practical – included the simple forms
of domestic, vocational, physical,
moral and military training.
2. Theoretical – covered the religious,
musical and literary.

10. Physical training – enable the primitive
men to satisfy their need for food and
shelter; spiritual or ceremonial training.
Social knowledge – to learn customs,
taboos and traditions for harmonious
living.
Content

11. Unconscious imitation
Observation
Simple telling and demonstration
Trial and error
Methods

12. EGYPTIAN
EDUCATION

13. Egypt . . .
is one of the earliest civilizations settled by
a Hamitic people who inhabited the valley
of the Nile 20,000 years ago, and with a
recorded history reaching back to the fifth
millennium B.C.
Egyptian culture – was dependent on the
activity of the Nile.
A unified system of government was
developed until it was ruled by dynasties of
pharaoh kings .

14. GREEK
EDUCATION

15. Greeks . . .
gave the era higher culture and
enlightenment.
Two principal components:
1. Aryan
2. Germanic
became the first and greatest sportsmen.

16. Greek boys went to school, but girls did
not.
Girls in wealthier families might have been
taught to read but, most stayed at home and
learned how to do housework.
This was not the same everywhere, though.
In Sparta, for example, girls had more
freedom and they were taught how to fight.

17. ROMAN
EDUCATION

18. Rome . . .
traces her beginnings to 753 B.C.
before Christ, she had expanded into a
massive, imperial colossus.
for more than two and a half
centuries, the city was the queen of the
Mediterranean.

19. Great periods in the history of
Roman education. . .
From 753 B.C. (traditional founding
of the city) to 275 B.C.
From 275 B.C. until 132 B.C.
From 132 B.C. to 100 A.D.
From 100 A.D. to 275 A.D.
From 275 A.D. to 529 A.D.