Ancient Maya Education

Ancient Maya Education

  • Submitted By: arturev
  • Date Submitted: 02/22/2009 12:40 PM
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Ancient Mayan Education
The ancient Mayan education was taught differently. It was not the same way we do in America. First, they only taught education to higher people like Priests, chiefs, leaders, and war leaders. It was unfair to lower people. Next, lower people still got education from there family, friends, and generations. They taught the younger ones what they ever learned through out there lives. After that, the lower people got angry and they made there own education place for any type of person. Well the ancient Mayan education was not easy or fair to some people. There education was pretty weird compared to America’s education. This is not even half information about the ancient Mayan education. For the next four paragraphs I will be talking about ancient Mayan education. The education of the ancient Mayan’s was kind of weird to us. They only gave education to higher people like Chiefs, leaders, war leaders, and priests. The other people who didn’t get education still got education from there families, generations, and friends. Usually there parents would teach what they learned throughout there lives. Mayans had a different education than some countries had. Like in America there is education for every type and every age person. Although their level of knowledge is as much as Greece, Mayans had like 2 areas that not even Greece has done. It is medicine and Astronomy. Ancient Mayans still had as much as knowledge as other countries did. Some people think Mayan’s are not smart but they are so wrong because Mayan’s are pretty smart with higher stuff but they are not the smartest. That is what I have to say for this paragraph. As I have told you ancient Mayan education is different from ours. In some countries education is only for different type of people like, young or old people, what group you’re in, or even how strong you are. In Maya it matters in what group you’re in. It was only for...

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