Hippias’s “Collection” — a handbook for a man of wisdom

Despite the obvious revival of interest in the First Sophistry in recent decades, Hippias of Elis is poorly considered in the con-text of the history of ancient education. Evidences about his phil-osophical views are not investigated as something significant in the development of ancient philosophy. Usually Hippias is inter-preted as a representative of the nascent genre of doxography. Meanwhile, there is an opportunity to consider evidence of his work, teaching, genre of his texts as an element of the history of the “higher” levels of ancient education, intended for successful and self-sufficient members of ancient society. This social type was formed precisely in the era of the First Sophistry. The cen-tral subject of this paper is the «Collection» of Hippias. Despite the minimum of information about this text available to a mod-ern scholar, there is a steady tendency to associate a number of evidences about the work of Hippias with this text. I will try to show that the hypothetical content of the “Collection” is in good agreement with the available information about the wisdom of Hippias. First of all, it corresponds to his belief in the diversity and plurality of being. This is the origin of the sophist's multi-scholarship — the multiplicity of being (the bodies of beings) forces us to develop a variety of knowledge concerning the most diverse aspects of life, its various manifestations. The methodol-ogy of his work was connected with this: Hippias singled out the most important and “homogeneous”. It allowed him to classify the material in full accordance with the tasks facing him. As a re-sult, firstly, this text was an attempt to systematize human knowledge about existence in its most important sections (the beginning of everything, the gods, history, the experience of re-markable people). Secondly, it was a teaching guide that allowed not only to learn various facts, but also helped to formulate judgments about the past so that it became a source of experience for the present. And thirdly, it was an auxiliary mnemonic tool, important for the process of writing speeches or rhetorical im-provisation.

TRADITIONAL TEACHING METHOD - CONCEPT OF MORAL EDUCATION AND PEDAGOGY IN AATHICUUDI

This Paper tries to describe about the ancient teaching of Tamilnadu. How the education system was established by the early Tamils? And how one person become a teacher in the earliest and what are the names given to them and what are the tools used for the teaching. The earliest education based on moral development. Moral values are much needed “to inspire, propel, and equip the learners with adequate skills, awareness, and values was taught. However, this paper tries to answer for the origin of the Tamil alphabet and how the bardic culture and Thymesian culture evolves in ancient education. and also this paper deals how the scribal culture helps us for the teaching.

Folk Games As A Means Of Personal Formation In The Ancient System Of Education

The article deals with the role of folk dances in the system of ancient education as a means of personality formation. The author analyzes the role of folk games in the upbringing of children.

Rhetoric between historical fiction and reality: the controversia in Fronto's correspondence

In ancient education, controversia was a form of declamation which engaged students in discussion of a fictional judicial case. As the apex of rhetorical training, it provided a high level of proficiency in composition and delivery techniques, and every young man of the Roman upper-class had to deal with this exercise and its deliberative counterpart (suasoria). This article explores the role of controversia within the didactic programme devised by Cornelius Fronto for Marcus Aurelius’ education. After an account of ‘indirect’ approaches to declamation, I will analyse the themes of controversia assigned by Fronto, outlining their historical and rhetorical background.

School Buildings in Mediterranean Antiquity: Notes on the Provenance of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas

The provenance of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas (IGT) remains an open question to scholars of early Christianity. Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Asia Minor have been proffered as the most likely settings of origin (with the latter two favored especially in recent years). The educational scenes in IGT may provide helpful hints of the text’s original setting. Paul Foster, however, in comparing the details of such scenes with depictions of education in literary sources, concludes that they offer no features suggestive of a particular setting of origin. However, comparison of such scenes with material depictions of ancient education may provide more geographical precision. A reexamination of the text’s educational scenes vis-à-vis material-cultural evidence suggests that Egypt should be reconsidered as a viable setting of origin for IGT.

Teaching and learning methods in Ayurveda and its current perspectives.

Teaching and learning are the two sides of a coin. Present education in Ayurveda is mostly becoming an examination oriented not knowledge oriented. Education is not simply imparting knowledge in a particular faculty or subject or making oneself to be able for securing jobs or scoring Marks in exams, but at the same time is also training in logical thinking which helps the coming generations adjust to the ever-changing environment. It also means opening the doors of the mind, cultivation of Mind, cleansing and realization of the self. The present education system is weighed down by several reasons as a result of which the outcome is becoming self-centric. If we study our ancient education methods e found it from Buddhist period. The goal of Buddhist education is to attain wisdom and it is spiritual oriented. The chief aim of Buddhist education was all round development of child’s personality. This included his physical, mental, moral, intellectual and spiritual development. Ayurveda is an ancient science of Indian origin. India has the rich heritage in the field of knowledge and education. The importance of ancient sciences Ayurveda is being recognized and appreciated at national and international levels. Adhyayan (learning) and Adhyapan (teaching) are important aspects of education system. Ancient education system in India was based on Gurukul and Guru Shishya Parampara (Teacher-Disciple Tradition) which was also followed in Ayurveda. Ayurveda and it was formally recognized by W.H.O in 1978. At present education system has been integrated with modern tools and technologies which are being incorporated in teaching and learning of Ayurveda. The present paper deals with critical review of ancient and current skills of Medical teaching and learning.