The Role of Education and Schools in Mesopotamia

Education is the strongest tool to make and change peoples' minds more different in the field of understanding of future life. As evidence, education has been maintaining its power from the past to nowadays in the way of developing prospects. The creation of the initial writing system was a big role in flourishing the education system. The invention of writing system in Mesopotamian was in the mid-fourth thousand years B.C which is a crucial stimulus in education. Additionally, using the simple pictographs was the written form for the first time, then Mesopotamians began to change forms of writing signs. Cuneiform that is called as ahead of time writing wedge-molded signs which scraped in wet clay with a specific reed implement. Speiser composed about the root of the writing symbols comes from Sumerians. Sumerians started to create and improve a new formal education staging was basic schools in the Mesopotamian. In this paper, will be disputed the important sides of the education and the school. Although the fact, education was based on making strong environment, the poor family's children not studying and teaching method varied.

Firstly, poor families were not allowed to study in the school that only the wealthy family's children, especially boys had to attend the school. Poor family's children are taught in their homes. It is passed from one to another, the main aspect of children's differentiability is not just a poorness, but they are successor to each other. I your father farmer, then you will be a farmer. If girls were not allowed to take a lesson, they should work with their mother and learn how to cook. Only thing that wanted to be in family life. At least a part of education will rescue you from those conditions. In normal, all noble families pay tuition fee and they knew that, at least their children get the position and would find a job. Since they were continuing education in the formal schools, they were teaching aims, training. In that case, they were ready to work as a priest. Whatever poor families did, their children were remained in force to work with own family. In the article 'Mesopotamian Education and School', it is composed that children who were twelve years old were getting an education. Learning the marks and understanding the difficulty of cuneiform writing system was an essential issue. In this case, the invention of schools in the third Millenium was making several factors in the education system based on understanding the cuneiform writing signs. Separation schools into two types: one is made by temples, another is a formal. In formal schools, people required to pay tuition fees to study there. Many people were not rich, then school led to wealthy children and boys. Formal education was desired and practical to work with scribes and priests. Instructors were scribes that were educated and took lessons and explain again the students who came from noble family or scribes. Although the boy gets an education in schools, the daughters of a ruler could take the lesson at that time. Education system played a crucial role in children future life to know their country mysterious, country politics and a lot of information about relationships with others. The students who studied special skills and maintaining own balance between other environments was successful enough, but it was unable to improve in this field only with a part of children. Decreasing the number of children and separate into groups were ineffective in the development of the country. However, others did not have a chance to beware of everything. Limitations in schools because of being poor were a great cause to separate children. The education system that based on this kind of limitation cause to not coming brilliant future.

Additionally, the teaching method made several issues in the studying period. Hardworking was the main goal of the teacher, whatever children did during the studying should be obedient. The teacher punished children who speak without permission, speak loud, put on insurable. After punishing the students, instructors thought that it was a better way to attract student and study easily. Although these punishments, children were going to school. If you know how to read and write, then you could get a job such as a priest. If students are seven or eight years, should go to school. They were educating, wide run of subjects which was comprehensive not as it were literacy: 'reading, writing, and history' but also numeracy: 'math, astronomy, engineering, geography'. The condition that no mater wealthy or poor, the scribes were difficult for students to learn. As I mentioned before, cuneiform was more complicated to learn. In this case, students learned using different procedures of continuous application on clay tablets. While using these procedures, it could occur as error. The teacher made it correct and say it again to the learner. In the case of that procedure, I agree with this strategy and it could be better to learn easily. However, understanding of cuneiform was enough hard to understand at the age of seven or eight. I cannot agree with that point. Another point was limitations, permission that was not justice towards the student. As I mentioned before, first schools were the place where the student could get knowledge, but not any limitations because of their dressing or speaking without permission. Actually, forcing someone to do whatever you want and they did not have any chance to choose what they want that is a raw condition lifetime. The basic understanding of attraction is to search for a easy way of teaching, not having any punishment, but teach students with an understandable way. The instructor should be strict on lessons, not on the dress. From that point of view, that way is not great to learn. If the student were punished even with whipping since they did not do their job in better standards. It could be logically if instructor punished them because of not doing tasks. If somebody reprimanded others, that person will not have any desire to do what this somebody needs. The system overlooked that significance, and method of learning even could prompt not have demand for considering. Subsequently, the improvement of training in Mesopotamia diminished. The strategy of instructors towards student did not contend

All in all, education and school system was significant in Mesopotamian and the innovation of the writing system was a new beginning to extend the education system. Creating the new schools made a chance for the children to change their future life that was a great path on education for Mesopotamians. Having a few issues on getting an education in Mesopotamia related to the hard way of teaching technique was unsatisfactory and students could not learn them. Even though, as a result of the crab of scribes, few Mesopotamians were studied, it did not make a difference since each new intellectual were crucial for their country. As far as this data, I think, education was imperative for developing the economy and extending worldwide, so, schools were essential not only in Mesopotamia, as well as in different countries Day by day, the increased economy changes put away for the developing of country. The future of our civilization depends on the gradual spread and deepening of scientific thinking.