Reflection paper#9

The first school and Ancient Egyptian Education had a number of things in common. Education to them both was viewed as a prized possession. They valued its every aspect and the moral attitudes and views of life that came along with it. The inventive goal of the Sumerian school was as the book (History begins at Sumer) termed “professional”. The Sumerian school established this goal for the training of the scribes. In obtaining this goal, the scribes would be able to suit the economic and directorial demands of the land. They followed this goal throughout its existence; in doing so the school became the center of the Sumerian culture. Similarly, the Art of learning, reading and writing was one of the most overriding forces in the ancient Egyptian civilization education just as it was to the Sumerian school. Almost all of today’s knowledge about the ancient Egyptians came from the work and art of the ancient Egyptian scribes. Most of the Egyptian’s ancient principles came from certain texts, so-called Books of Institution and Wisdom Literature. The advice given in these texts were addressed and taught by elders of the royal scribal classes to the younger men of those same classes. Throughout the years the concepts became recognizable to all levels of Egyptian civilization. In comparison, Sumerian professors equipped the oldest dictionaries known to man. Semitic conquerors, which I’m guessing ranked beneath them, borrowed the dictionaries and highly admired the Literacy, which they deliberated and replicated long after the Sumerians had become extinct. As for literacy and ingenious characteristic of the Sumerian curriculum, it consisted primarily in studying and imitating the large, various group of literacy symphonies. Formal vocational training also existed along with scribal and at-home teaching. In ancient Egyptian education an official would take on his son as a helper, so that the son would have "on the job" training and the sequence become habitual. My thoughts on teacher’s effectiveness today are that the classrooms are more set up with suited material for the students. The teachers are much more laid back compared to the professors that taught at the Sumerian School. They were all about discipline and getting class work done, however in most schools teachers are not here for the learning of the children but rather just to get a paycheck.