https://padlet.com/wendysumma/bb85vb9gmtrtvvl9 Made with the best of intentions en-us 2021-10-12 01:29:43 UTC 2026-01-19 16:55:57 UTC hello@padlet.com wendysumma https://padlet.com/wendysumma/bb85vb9gmtrtvvl9/wish/1809336578 The who - 21st century BCE to late 7th century BCE - Mesopotamian Civilization- 
Sumerians, resided in this ancient city  


]]> 2021-10-12 02:13:40 UTC https://padlet.com/wendysumma/bb85vb9gmtrtvvl9/wish/1809336578 wendysumma https://padlet.com/wendysumma/bb85vb9gmtrtvvl9/wish/1809336701 The what - Mesopotamian Education and Schools- what was taught - who was taught - The first schools were started by the Sumerians in southern Mesopotamia. The invention of writing in the mid-4th millennium B.C. made kings and priests realize the need for educating scribes.]]> 2021-10-12 02:13:43 UTC https://padlet.com/wendysumma/bb85vb9gmtrtvvl9/wish/1809336701 wendysumma https://padlet.com/wendysumma/bb85vb9gmtrtvvl9/wish/1809336790
The first schools were started by the Sumerians in southern Mesopotamia. 😊 who was taught  ? Education was only for the elite- mainly only the rich, and boys attended due to the high cost to attend. 
The sons of the nobility, government officials, priests and rich merchants went to school. Boys started school around 7-8 years old. Girls did not learn to read or write unless they were a king’s daughters or were training as priestesses.]]> 2021-10-12 02:13:46 UTC https://padlet.com/wendysumma/bb85vb9gmtrtvvl9/wish/1809336790 wendysumma https://padlet.com/wendysumma/bb85vb9gmtrtvvl9/wish/1809336901 what was taught ? what was the main focus -?


Record keeping was important to ancient Mesopotamians. They wrote everything down . There language was cuneiform.

Students learned the complicated cuneiform script by constant practice on their clay tablets

Schools where attached to temples

Students needed to do a "perfect job" or face harsh punishment

"Teachers, mostly former scribes or priests, were harsh disciplinarians; mistakes were often punished by whipping. Teachers punished students who spoke out of turn, spoke without permission, dressed inappropriately, or got up and left without permission" ( Mesopotamian Education and Schools - History (historyonthenet.com))

Teachers taught the boys reading, writing, math and history. Depending on their future employment, students not only had to learn literacy and numeracy, but to be familiar with a wide variety of subjects, including geography, zoology, botany, astronomy, engineering, medicine and architecture. ]]> 2021-10-12 02:13:49 UTC https://padlet.com/wendysumma/bb85vb9gmtrtvvl9/wish/1809336901 wendysumma https://padlet.com/wendysumma/bb85vb9gmtrtvvl9/wish/1809347260 Lower class children where taught there family /fathers Trade , and rarely attended schooling 

Girls both rich , and poor stayed home and assisted there mothers , learned housekeeping, . Rarely a kings daughter may have attended schooling 


]]> 2021-10-12 02:18:12 UTC https://padlet.com/wendysumma/bb85vb9gmtrtvvl9/wish/1809347260