How did school start?
We
went to school to get education now our children go to school.
Studied
at university.
Have
you ever wondered how this school came about?
No,
it never occurred to me.
So
today we will know how school started!!!
Start Period:
Education
is the name of spiritual, mental and physical development. But generally, people
have to learn many things to lead a life, this is also a part of education. Not
all education is available in schools.
In
all the countries of the world, the tradition of learning from one another has
been going on since ancient times. But only after the discovery of script or
symbols, the system of education started by going to a specific center from a
specific teacher or teachers. Schools are built for learning. School is a place
where students are admitted for imparting education. Notice that this
definition has two important aspects. The first is a specific location and the
second is where more than one acre of boys and girls are educated at the same
time. The schools here are built on the model of ancient Greek or Roman
schools.
Institutionalized
education was pioneered by the Greek philosopher Plato hundreds of years before
the birth of Christ. There was a time when the professional teachers of Pris
used to teach only one student in their house. Some of the Pandits and
Philosophers used to travel around the country to campaign. Teaching a certain
subject through lectures by gathering people from place to place. But the great
Greek philosopher Plato was the first to introduce a systematic education
program through which education was imparted for three to four years at a
specific place. This system was called academy or education. The activities of
the AA school were held at the army parade grounds. After this Aristotle
founded a school at the Lyceum. Aristotle taught his students in the public
gymnasium of Athens, the capital of Greece.
Neither
of these two schools were like our modern schools. These were basically places
of discussion or speech. At one point the Greeks realized that Grammar was
something every young man should learn. Because of this, Grammar schools were
established in those ancient times. Later the Romans were influenced by the
Greeks and established the school. Roman schooling at that time was similar to
modern schooling.
Students
had to get up in the morning, learn grammar, learn foreign languages. Even had
to learn how to talk to elders i.e. manners. This is about the beginning of the
school.
Books
are one of the vehicles of learning. But this book did not come to us like that
from the beginning. Books have come to our doorsteps after a long time. We read
books to acquire knowledge. How do we know that this book came into our hands?
Have
you ever wondered how we got the book? And how did we begin to gain knowledge?
History of the book:
What
we understand today as a book had its beginnings in the Middle Ages. Before
that, the closest thing to a book was a rolled paper called papyrus. The two
pairs of papyrus paper were attached to an elongated roller. Romans called it
volumen. From this comes the English word volume. Of course volume means folded
pages. By the middle of the fifth century, papyrus was replaced by sheep and
goat skin, and vellum was made from cow calfskin. These papers could only be
written on one side. They were cut flat and blocked with leather. Thus they
became books.
But
the first books similar to ours appeared in the Middle Ages. Four pieces of
vellum were folded into it in such a way that each piece had two leaves. The
pieces were placed in such a way that eight leaves were in the same bunch,
called a stem.
These
volumes were sent to scribes for writing books. He would keep them separate and
write on a single page at the same time. As the vellum was quite thick, it
could be written on both sides.
Later
these were sent to the last section. This would come out as a book to the
binder. He sewed the sections with thread. The wooden cover was made and at the
end the cover was fixed by tying the pieces of this board. Finally, the whole book
would be covered with a huge skin. These are the books as we see them today.
Most
of the books produced in the Middle Ages were scriptures, sermons and other
religious books. Then came law, medicine, and science then came novels and romance
books. Most books of the Middle Ages were written in Latin.
World's First Women's College:
Many
social workers and leaders have worked for the advancement of women's education
since ages. And the light of women's education has been established in the
bosom of the world. In that light today we will know how the first women's
college was established.
The
first college in the world to accommodate girls is ‘Wehrlein Collegiate
Institute in Ohio, USA. It was founded by Theodore Weld and several of his
followers out of the Lane Theological Seminary. They announced that any boy and
girl can study in this college irrespective of caste. The college was
established on 3 December 1833. That is about 189 years ago today.
It
started with 29 boys and 15 girls ie total 44 students. Although the college
was declared to educate girls to make ideal mothers and wives, it eventually
became the foremost organization of the women's movement. 3 women graduated
from this college on 25 August 1841.
These
are Carolyn Marie, Rudd, Elizabeth Smith and Mary Romford.
Note
that the all-girls college opened in South Hadley, Massachusetts on November 8,
1837. The college opened under the leadership of Mary Lyon was called Mount
Holyoke Female Seminary.
Queers
College, the first women's college in Britain, opened on 1 May 1848 in Harley
Street, London. However, the first college established in Britain for the
higher education of girls at the university level is the 'College for Women at
Benslow House in Hertfordshire. The first three women graduated from London
University in 1880.
In
this way, women's education started to spread slowly. Girls express interest in
receiving education.
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