schools

What was school like in the ancient world? In the pre-covid-age, the enduring general image of attending school for most pupils is one of learning in a classroom with a group of fellow students with a teacher in the front of the classroom teaching subjects such as mathematics, science, history and so on. A year of schooling would be punctuated by examinations where one’s ability to retain their education is tested. Evidently, this is does not necessarily work for everyone as the mere idea of school and academic examinations may sometimes be unpleasant to some people. Philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986), for example, condemned competitive education as destructive and absurd. However, the concept of putting students together in one