Author/Authors :
Kılıç, Serap Özkan Celal Bayar Üniversitesi - Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi - Tarih Bölümü (Eskiças Tarihi Anabilim Dali), Turkey
Abstract :
The purpose of this study; to examine the education system of the Persians and figure out how useful it is in the Empire. In order to comprehend the system, only written sources -mostly Greek and Roman, partly Persian- give some informations. Persian education based on to improve physical and military skills of the youngsters. Altough the system seems to open every citizen of the empire actually addresses only to nobles. Even it has some similarities with Spartan education system such as discipline, obedience, physical endurance and combat training, Persians also focused on to teach the apprentices in administrative management needs of the empire. On the social aspects; those well educated men, maintain the hierarchy in the bureaucracy and transfer the ideology to the next generations.
