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This article discusses the history of education, tracing the evolution of the formal teaching of knowledge and skills from prehistoric and ancient times to the present, and considering the various philosophies that have inspired the resulting systems. Other aspects of education are treated in a number of articles.
Education - Ancient Societies, Literacy, Pedagogy: The history of civilization started in the Middle East about 3000 bce, whereas the North China civilization began about a millennium and a half later.
Education - 20th Century, Reforms, Access: International wars, together with an intensification of internal stresses and conflicts among social, racial, and ideological groups, characterized the 20th century and had profound effects on education.
Education - Global Trends, Access, Equity: One of the most significant phenomena of the 20th century was the dramatic expansion and extension of public (i.e., government-sponsored) education systems around the world—the number of schools grew, as did the number of children attending them.
Education - 19th Century, Reforms, Schools: From the mid-17th century to the closing years of the 18th century, new social, economic, and intellectual forces steadily quickened—forces that in the late 18th and the 19th centuries would weaken and, in many cases, end the old aristocratic absolutism.
Education: New York Military Academy (Cornwall, New York) Fordham University (1964–1966) University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School (B.S., 1968) (Show more)
Education - Progressive, Student-Centered, Experiential: The progressive education movement was part and parcel of a broader social and political reform called the Progressive movement, which dated to the last decades of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th.
Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley. Author of The Dialectical Imagination and many others.
The history of philosophy of education is an important source of concerns and issues—as is the history of education itself—for setting the intellectual agenda of contemporary philosophers of education. Equally relevant is the range of contemporary approaches to the subject.
Education: Punahou School Occidental College Columbia University (B.A., 1983) Harvard Law School (J.D., 1991) (Show more)