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Free primary education for everybody!
Jul. 11th, 2015 07:28 pmIt's hard to estimate all the positive externalities of this 2000-year-old invention (the quote below is from The Chosen Few):
I wonder how it was in China at the time. Here they say that elementary schools for common people were established during the Xia dynasty: http://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/ancient-education.htm
Although, it's not clear whether attendance was mandatory as in the ben Gamla's system.
About 63–65 CE, the Pharisaic high priest Joshua ben Gamla issued a religious ordinance requiring every Jewish father to send his six- or seven-year-old sons to primary school. Some 200 to 300 years later, the Babylonian Talmud described this event as follows:Thus it was until Joshua ben Gamla decreed that teachers of children should be appointed in every district and every city and that boys of the age of six and seven should be entered.
I wonder how it was in China at the time. Here they say that elementary schools for common people were established during the Xia dynasty: http://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/ancient-education.htm
Although, it's not clear whether attendance was mandatory as in the ben Gamla's system.
