Pushed Athens to an unprecedented period of prosperity

The failure of Athens became the starting point for the decline of Greek civilization

Use money instead of family status as the only condition for teaching

This expands the scope of education, promotes cultural dissemination, and promotes social mobility.

The establishment of the "first three arts", grammar, rhetoric, and dialectics, was first determined by wise men.

Pay attention to moral and political knowledge education

What the wise man actually provides is the preparatory education for politicians or rulers

spread widely

Transfer occurs. The center of culture and education moved from Athens to Alexandria, which became the center of cultural exchange between the East and the West at that time.

Metamorphosis occurs

In the classical period, primary schools in ancient Greece usually focused on multi-faceted education with moral, intellectual, physical and beauty as the basic content.

During the Hellenistic period, junior schools were mainly limited to intellectual subjects such as reading, writing, and arithmetic. Sports with a military nature were first cancelled, aesthetic education was gradually weakened, and the tradition of focusing on harmonious development and multi-faceted education was destroyed.

Facing decline

During the Hellenistic period, the original secondary educational institution, the gymnasium, was replaced by a grammar school. Secondary education increasingly focuses on knowledge teaching, with particular emphasis on literature education, while physical education and aesthetic education are neglected

obvious development

In addition to the original Plato's Academy, Aristotle's Lyceum and Isocrates' rhetoric school, many philosophical schools appeared. Around 200 BC, the above-mentioned schools were merged to form the University of Athens.