Notes
This series Would You Believe ... explores everyday life through the centuries - but not as you’ve ever seen it before! This book explores education throughout history and the story behind schools and education, as well as the teaching practices and types of schools. It includes distasteful educational practices that our ancestors employed, and explores some unusual teaching methods which take place today.Contents
Contents : learning for life; cave school; a day at the gymnasium; squire and page; church and school; learning to fight; in the shadow of a pyramid; reasonable chastisement; learning to read and write; the first european school; in the school yard; boarding schools; special and unusual schools; revolution in the classroom; teaching girls? ridiculous!; all work and no education; one-room schoolhouse; home schooling; success without schooling; testing times; what’s so weird about that; find out more; glossary and index;
