A slight look on the development of educational system.

2. Education in its general sense is a form of learning in which the
knowledge, skills, values, beliefs and habits of a group of peop
are transferred from one generation to the next through
storytelling, discussion, teaching, training and or research.
Education may also include informal transmission of such
information from one human being to another.

3. Education frequently takes place under the guidance of others, but learners
may also educate themselves.

4. Any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels or
acts may be considered education.

5. Education is commonly and formally divided into stages such as preschool
primary school, secondary school, and then college, university or
apprenticeship. The science and art of how best to teach is called pedagogy

6. A right to education has been recognized by some governments. At the
global level, Article 13 of the United Nations’ 1966 International Covenant
on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights recognizes the right of everyone
to an education. Although education is compulsory in most places up to a
certain age, attendance at school often isn’t and a minority of parents
choose home-schooling, some times with the assistance of modern
electronic educational technology (ELearning)
Education can take place in formal or informal settings.

7. Etymologically, the word "education" is derived from the Latin
ēducātiō ("A breeding, a bringing up, a rearing") from ēdūcō ("I
educate, I train") which is related to the homonym ēdūcō ("I lead
forth, I take out; I raise up, I erect") from ē- ("from, out of") and
dūcō ("I lead, I conduct").

8. Education begin in the earliest prehistory, as adults trained the young in the know
and skills deemed necessary in their society. In pre-literate societies this was ach
orally and through imitation. Story-telling passed knowledge, values, and skills fro
generation to the next.

9. As cultures began to extend their knowledge beyond skills that could
be readily learned through imitation, formal education developed.

10. Schools existed in Egypt at the time of the Middle Kingdom

11. Plato founded the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in
Europe.

12. The city of Alexandria in Egypt, founded in 330 BCE, became the successor to A
as the intellectual cradle of Ancient Greece.

13. There, mathematician Euclid and anatomist Herophilus constructed
great Library of Alexandria and translated the Hebrew Bible into Gr

14. European civilization suffered a collapse of literacy and organizatio
following the fall of Rome in AD 476.

15. In China, Confucius (551-479 BCE), of the State of Lu, was the cou
most influential ancient philosopher, whose educational outlook con
to influence the societies of China and neighbors like Korea, Japan
Vietnam. Confucius gathered disciples and searched in vain for a ru
who would adopt his ideals for good governance, but his Analects w
written down by followers and have continued to influence education
East Asia into the modern era.

16. After the Fall of Rome, the Catholic Church became the sole preserver of literate
scholarship in Western Europe.

17. The church established cathedral schools in the Early Middle Ages as centers of
advanced education. Some of these ultimately evolved into medieval universities
forebears of many of Europe’s modern universities.

18. During the High Middle Ages, Chartres Cathedral operated the famo
and influential Chartres Cathedral School. The medieval universities
Western Christendom were well-integrated across all of Western
Europe, encouraged freedom of inquiry, and produced a great varie

19. of fine scholars and natural philosophers,
including Thomas Aquinas of the
University of Naples.

20. Robert Grosseteste of the University of Oxford, an early
expositor of a systematic method of scientific
experimentation;

21. Saint Albert the Great, a pioneer of biological field research. The
University of Bologne is considered the oldest continually operating
University.

32. The Renaissance in Europe ushered in a new age of scientific an
intellectual inquiry and appreciation of ancient Greek and Roman
civilization.

33. Around 1450, Johannes Gutenberg developed a printing press, whic
allowed works of literature to spread more quickly.

34. The European Age of Empires saw European ideas of education i
philosophy, religion, arts and sciences spread out across the glob

35. Missionaries and scholars also brought back new ideas from other civilizations—
with the Jesuit China Missions who played a significant role in the transmissions
knowledge, science and culture between China and Europe, translating works fro
Europe like Euclid’s Elements for Chines scholars and the thoughts of Confucius
European audiences

36. The Enlightenment saws the emergence of a more secular educational outlook in

37. In most countries today full-time education , whether at school or
otherwise, is compulsory for all children up to a certain age.

38. Due to this proliferation of compulsory education, combined with population grow
UNESCO has calculated that in the next 30 years more people will receive forma
education than in all of human history thus far.

39. Thank You
shirazi