Educational Differences
Greek Schoolchildren on a Kylix, a cup created around 460 BCE, is presented in Michael Austin’s book Reading the World: Ideas That Matter. This piece of pottery displays a black background with three men in between artistic floral figures. Two men, one holding a scroll and the other a writing tablet, stand in front of a man that is sitting down and holding a staff. The man sitting wears a robe that creates vertical clefts where it sits while the other two wear a robe with a dark line running through it.
Austin implements this kylix to show how different cultures and times lead to certain aspects, in this case education. The education that I have received is completely different to the one exhibited on the kylix. Technology advancements, equality statuses, and disciplinary actions that have been updated over the course of time have contributed to the differences between contemporary education and old Greek education.
The kylix displays the innovations of the time in the scroll and the writing tablet. They used these tools to write and to pass information between themselves. Technology advancements have created our modern day writing tablet in a smart board or a laptop. These innovative products have changed the way assignments are done. For example, instead of writing we type on our computer, or we write on a board in front of the whole class instead of individually teaching every single person.
Furthermore, equality has definitely changed in the time between 460 BCE and today. The kylix displays only males receiving an education and teaching it. The education that I have received has mostly been from female teachers. In fact, whenever a person says the word teacher, I immediately think of a woman standing in front of a class lecturing and getting after students. In addition, all my life I have studied and taken classes side-by-side