Evolution Of Education : How Much Has Education

In the article, Education and Schooling: You Can Have One Without the Other, Mwalimu J. Shujaa of the State University of New York discusses the importance of learning that there is a difference between schooling and education. Can education exist without schooling or vice versa? Shujaa’s article gives an insight into the conjunction of schooling and education and how they impact the culture of African Americans.

Education has existed throughout history in one form or another. The process of passing down accumulated information from one generation to the next has been present in every human society, past and present. From the young listening to the stories of the elders around the hearths of the ancient world, to pupils being instructed in the alphabet in a one room schoolhouse on the American frontier, to the present day online teaching sessions; the tradition of teaching and learning has been a constant in the ever changing world. Education has been and continues to be used for many purposes, chief among them being the creation of an educated citizenry, the empowerment of that citizenry, and improvement of the

In this paper I will show my research on how theories of education have changed thought the years and how teachers and students adapt to these changes. With the changes in multicultural classrooms and how students with disabilities have rights in public education.

From the dawn of time, education has been the past's greatest utility in survival. Through learning, skills that have been passed down from the errors of others, communities were able to learn and grow with each other. Simple public education systems began to pop up to educate the youth and the curious, and ever since the first school systems began there has been room for improvement. The largest reforms of the educational system began at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

After the Fall of Rome in 476 C.E. Barbarian tribes Goths, and Huns invaded Europe from the east to the north. These invasions caused buildings to collapse, and very few amount of schools were left. This left the people with a lack of education and no desire to teach it. With little to no education, no new ideas were formed, and no one bothered to repair the damage caused by the invasions. People also forgot how to read and write.

In every civilization in the world, education proves to be the main force of advancement. This is especially true in Islamic

Education wasn’t a big thing to have for kids.It was not big for Adults either. Boys were meant in this time period to work like their dad. Little girls were meant to clean, cook, and sew things. The Mother was meant for cleaning and cooking. Education was rarely used around this time period, they did not have much of it. Some seek it and some could care less about education. A lot of education was mostly in churches. God carried in kids who wanted to learn. There was only education so kids can do the adults job for them, mostly in the church. In the churches the kids filed files and wrote letters. For example, Alcuin was a famous teacher in the church world. He inspired kids to learn. Alcuin had a huge compilation of poems and books (Wells,2009). The Greeks,Franks, Romans, Arabs recorded and wrote some of the history of the Dark Ages (Gregory,1993). The alphabet of today originated through the greek alphabet (Sakoula,2002). However, much of the historical background on the Greeks was not recorded. Most history was not recorded. It was a very hard period of time for these people and everyone else. (Sakoulas,2002). Education was not valued by the people during the Dark Ages besides the people in the church. In the church, people loved education. They wanted to teach education to the un-educated. Latin was taught by Alcuin, he is a christian munk.It helped German people learn about the Roman Classics from the centuries before time (Catholic Bible 101,2008). Latin gave them a way to be interested in learning. People were taught the Roman sciences such as music, geometry,astronomy, basic math, logic rhetoric, and grammar. (Catholic Bible

Evolution is the most popular theory currently taught in public high schools, and is widely accepted as a sound scientific concept to teach. However, it is equally true that many disagree with evolution and many of its concepts as an explanation of the origin of life on our planet, and it is thus my opinion that evolution should not even be taught in public science classes, as it is not scientifically sound, nor should be a part of a wide variety of concepts taught to students that that should also include intelligent design, creationism, or any other number of theories that have just as much of validity as evolution.

How has the American educational system developed over these brief 200 years of history? Over the course of American history, there have been many transitional periods. When, why, and how has the original American education system evolved over time? How did American education begin, how, and why, has it changed, what’s American education like now, and how could it change in the future? Let’s take a look back, and see how it all began.

In the beginning of schooling around 1450, the focus was reading and writing. Then people started to take a more humanist perspective and put their values in knowledge more and being experienced in multiple areas.

In the 12th and 13th centuries, ideas and attitudes regarding education began to change considerably, gaining supreme importance, and in due course leading to an intellectual revolution in the foreseeable 14th century. The main reason for this advancement was the establishment of more towns, resulting in an increased necessity of formal education; Therefore, In 800, although it did not happen immediately, Charlemagne ordered that every town in the “Holy Roman Empire” shall establish a school. With the coming of the economic revival of the late 11th century, educational opportunities became increasingly more achievable. At this time the development of organized learning was just beginning but as you said in the prompt would ultimately lead us to the “type of higher education system” that we have established today. As the book states, “By 1179, Pope Alexander III decreed that all cathedrals should set aside income for at least one school-teacher, whose task would be to accept all comers, rich or poor, without fee. (Coffin, Stacey, Cole, & Symes, 2011)” Besides the integration of technology, methods of learning today are based off the past and therefore have very similar characteristics. I personally believe the purpose of education is the same now as it was back when it was first established, to create a specialized, functioning member of society, whether that be a menial worker, clerk, merchant, musician, mathematician, lawyer, doctor, or other profession.

Education has been around for centuries. Since the beginning of time. All the way back to the time of Noah from the Bible. There have been many different styles, teaching and tactics of education. From learning the basics in the beginning of time like speaking languages, writing and the word of God, to what teachers are teaching today in normal schools like science, history, math, english, the list goes on. Throughout history people have been educated in very many numerous ways like being self taught, having a tutor, learning from family members, online school, home school, and also just plain old sitting in a classroom and being taught by a teacher with many students around one another. As time has gone by

The Middle Ages occurred when the eastern world seemed to have plummeted into an age of regression and darkness. It consisted of the period between 500 and 1500 A.D, and it happened after the fall of the Roman Empire. During this time, education was seemingly forgotten. Many people believed that education was not an important factor during the Middle Ages, but they were wrong. According to the article “Medieval Women”, “Education back then was very important, so much that even some women were admitted to learn how to read and write” (“Medieval Women”). It is important to know that in the Middle Ages most of the people were not able to go to school. As explained by the historian, John Simkin “In 1330 only about 5% of the population could read or write. It was extremely rare for peasants to be literate. Some lords of the manor had laws banning serfs from being educated” (Simkin). It was usually only the sons from rich families that went to school. During the Middle Ages, there were some important aspects in Education such as types of schools, methods for courses, and rejection of women for school.

“The period between 1965 and the end of the 1980s witnessed significant developments, not only in the provision of post-primary schooling in Ireland, but also in the way in which schooling was understood.”

We all are aware that education is evolving rapidly, and excelling university curriculum is not enough at all for the students to be fit for the job-market. Capacity development trainings are vital in the holistic development of students to provide them real world knowledge, and help them connect and relate the lessons learnt in classrooms to the outside world. It’s also necessary for bridging the academia-industry gaps.