Education in Sparta: Did the Strengths Outweigh the Weaknesses?
Imagine yourself being reborn as a baby boy in Sparta. You were born as a strong and healthy child, so you were allowed by government officials in Sparta to continue living. By the time you reached the age of 7, you were sent to military school. There, you had to endure severe physical training alongside other young boys near your age, but rarely learned reading and writing. In Sparta, boys from ages 7-30 were trained and only received basic education. Sparta was a well-known city-state in Greece for their military strength, their courage, their determination, their obedience, and their self-discipline. Unlike their rival, Athens, who favored intelligence, open-mindedness, and
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Even though kids only learned the basics of education, they still managed to get by in the world and still be powerful. Those in Sparta didn’t have to have a strong education to be powerful. Another strength that wasn’t all that bad was even though their training was harsh, it was effective and actually worked. Boys undergoing this had gotten stronger and were obviously better than they used to be. Even though the training was very harsh and dangerous, it managed to pay off with how the boys turned out to be. Another asset of Spartan education was that the discipline made them more obedient and gave them more information on how to really tackle an objective correctly and not incorrectly. Even though they receive beatings, they learn from their mistakes and use that as an advantage of how to clear their objective.
All in all, the strengths of Sparta’s education were outweighed by its weaknesses. Even though Sparta was a very powerful city-state in Greece, their education didn’t seem just as powerful. Spartans only learned the basics of education, their thought of training could possibly endanger them or get them killed, and they were abused for not carrying out things properly that they were