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Education is Sparta Did the Strengths Outweigh the Weaknesses
Document A The Agoge System
That is your troop over there
Document BLife in the Military
Alexandra Vicuna
Document CThe Krypteia Murder Squads
Spartan boys use to get taken away from their families at the age of 7 years old from his eighth to his twenty-first he was educated by the state according to a rigorous (military-like) discipline. Immediately on his beginning the agoge the seven-year-old boy was enrolled in one of the troops.
Document D Moralia: Practices and Beliefs
Today we are learning to read and write
The clothing the Spartan bays wear was one garment throughout the year believing that they would thus be better prepared to face changes of heat and cold. The Spartan boys had to steal [Lycurgus] encouraged them to get their food by their own cunning. Spartan boys use to get whipped the reason was so they can learn a lesson and they don got caught again.
Document E Educating Girls
At intervals, the magistrates [law-enforcement officers]would send out [the krypteia], the most sensible of the young Spartiates into various parts of the country. They carried daggers and as much food as was necessary, but nothing else.
The Spartans learned to read and write for purely practical reasons but all other forms of education they banned from the country.
Spartan education was the fact they believed that motherhood is the most important function of freeborn women, which is pretty sexist.

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