Education in Sparta: Did the Strengths Outweigh the Weaknesses?
By: Korbyn Tietjen
Would you want to be abandoned or be left outside to die because you
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weren't strong enough?Or get pulled away from your family when your 7 years old or
get whipped when you got caught stealing cause you were stealing terribly?Well this
was the fate of a Spartan child.Sparta was located on a large in Southern Greece
called Peloponnese.Sparta grew slowly to a city-state.Sparta was the dominant city- state on the Peloponnese by 500 BCE.Sparta also had to fight to survive like other
Greek settlements.Did the strengths outweigh the weaknesses?A few examples of
weaknesses is organized stealing, they leave the weak babies outside to die, and the
boys being removed
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In Spartan education, the weak babies die.If the tribe leaders think the baby
is strong enough they give the baby back to the father to be raised.If the baby was
weak they would leave the baby on a hill to die.Document A states"If they were
satisfied that he was strong and healthy, they gave it back to the father to be brought
up; if not, they ordered it to be exposed[left outside to die]."You can't inspect a baby
and say if the baby is strong and healthy or weak.A weak baby could of grew up and
became stronger than a baby who was a strong healthy baby.
In Spartan Education, boys at the age of 7 get removed from their families.
Then go to the state-controlled education or agoge. The boys had rigorous [military- like] discipline from eight through twenty-one years of age.Document A states"At