Reading Comprehension Test. Text 2a history of education

Text 2A HISTORY OF EDUCATION

Practise introducing opinions using phrases from list number 1. Try to use appropriate phrases from lists number 3,4,5,6 for expressing agreement, doubt, reservations, partial agreement and disagreement.

1. We continue to learn as long as we live, don’t we?

2. But the education we receive in the secondary school doesn’t help us to continue learning, does it?

3. We are taught to read, write, do calculation and are taught many important facts about the world around us, aren’t we?

4. However later in life we are not able to find out things ourselves and we have to ask other people to help us. Could not you agree on that?

5. Very early in the history of mankind children were taught by their parents, would not you agree on that?

6. It is thought that the first schools started in ancient Greece, didn’t they?

7. In order to teach reading and writing specially trained people were not needed. It could be done by everyone, don’t you think so? What about Great Britain?

8. In Egypt as in ancient India people were divided into groups or into the four castes, and only the sons of the priestly caste attended the schools, would not you agree on that? Could not you comment it?

9. In China education was organized according to social classes and consisted of learning the Ethics and Psychology of Family Life by heart until the middle of the XX-th century, would not you agree?

10. As for Greece, this country gives a clear example of the way in which neighbouring peoples produce the same type of education, don’t you think so? I mean two Greek states: Sparta and Athens. At the very same time they were building what we call a liberal education, don’t you see it that way? Could you comment it?

11. The Athenians and Spartans thought it important to educate the body as well as the mind, didn’t they?

12. As time went on Athenian education paid special attention to reading, writing, literature, didn’t it?

13. As for common people in Greece, they were not educated and were not trained in craftsmanship, workmanship, trades, were they?

14. However since those days Greek ideas have influenced European education especially secondary and higher education, haven’t they?

15. Would not you agree, when I said that the Romans at 6 or 7 went to the primary school, where they learned “three R’s”: reading, writing, arithmetic? How many stages did the education provide?

16. In Great Britain the main system of teaching was the “Monitor” system, wasn’t it?

17. The teacher could manage a class of 1000 or more by using “monitors” to help him, couldn’t he?

Thank you!

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