Education In Ancient Egypt Education

Ancient Egypt placed education on a high pedestal. The more educated you were increased the chances of you being wealthy, as well as determined your status in the society. Although there were not many schools during that time, there were a few, and only a few attended. “These schools were only attended by boys. The ordinary people were educated at home.” (Alchin, “Ancient Egypt Education”). Many people in Ancient Egypt did not receive a formal education. Several of them had manual labor jobs, which were usually the same occupation their fathers had before them.

Although women were on the same level as men, women still were not given as many opportunities that the males had when it came to education. Whatever class you were born in, was the

But not many people attended them. At the time women were not allowed to go to school. Any knowledge obtained by young ladies was usually from their mothers or a slave who lived with them. Many girls weren’t granted the opportunity to learn how to read or write, and if they did know how, most of the time they had come from wealthy homes. Females who were granted the opportunity to go to school were usually very successful, some even became doctors or advisors. Girls were taught the basics. They were taught how to maintain the household, cook and

This was because occasionally the men would be absent from the household, and they had to pick up where the men left off. Depending on the on their status, some women were granted the right of some education. Not all of the girls had the right to learn, females who were born to royal families received the same level of education as boys, but the lower class women received little to no education. Women, no matter the status, were not allowed to become scribes, so they usually became the Pharaohs advisors. This is how it became to be thought of that women were the most influential over some of the major decisions in Egyptian history. These women weren’t average, though. They were groomed to be intelligent, they had to know politics, they were educated on history, writing, mathematics, just about anything you can think of, they were had knowledge of.

Just like the girls, many boys had not attended school either. And if they were, they were sent there by their rich families, in order to be trained in a particular skill. Boys learned how to plant fields, create tools, as well as how to become a fisherman. The future of the young man depended solely on the skills his father had invested in him. Most boys became whatever it is that their fathers were, and if he did not learn the skills taught, he would have been sent out of the village and would have to survive somehow on his own