Brief history of education. If you want to know how education started, the reason why education is there or the purpose of education in our lives and society, In this post, I've got some quality pointers to the history of education.
History of education
Education didn't start some 10 or 100 years ago. Also, education didn't start with what we know as schools today. Instead, education dates back as man itself. As
Psychology Today puts it,
Schools are very recent institutions. For hundreds of thousands of years, before the advent of agriculture, we lived as hunter-gatherers. In my August 2 posting, I summarized the evidence from anthropology that children in hunter-gatherer cultures learned what they needed to know to become effective adults through their own play and exploration.
But as the world and mankind lived on, certain changes began to occur, leading to the kind of universal (and in some places compulsory) education we have today.
One of such changes that brought about modern type of education is innovations and automations in industries. These revolutionary changes resulted to decrease in child labour.
Following the decrease in child labour, people began to accept the idea that children in their early years should devout their time to studies and learning modern skills in the technologically advancing world.
For reasons such as this, the idea of universal education was on the rise.
For various reasons, some religious and some secular, the idea of universal, compulsory education arose and gradually spread. Education was understood as inculcation.
According to Wikipedia,
The systematic provision of learning techniques to most children, such as literacy, has been a development of the last 150 or 200 years, or even last 50 years in some countries.
And gradually the modern type of education, with schools and specialized institutions became widely accepted.
Detailed History of Education
To get more detailed history of education from a reliable source, read Wikipedia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_education
