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Consisting of 24000 verses. its considered to be shorter version of Mahabharat
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• During the Han Dynasty (206 BC- 221 AD), boys were thought ready at age seven to start learning basic skills in reading, writing and calculation
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• During the Zhou Dynasty (1045 BC to 256 BC), there were five national schools in the capital city
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It was common for children at schools in Athens to also study various arts such as drawing, painting, and sculpture.
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• The oldest of the Upanishads - another part of Hindu scriptures - date from around 500 BC.
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During the Sui Dynasty, for the first time, an examination system was explicitly instituted for a category of local talents
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• In the period preceding 1040–1050 AD, prefectural schools had been neglected by the state and left to the devices of wealthy patrons who provided private finances
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• The Phoenician writing system was adapted from the Proto-Canaanite script in around the 11th century BC, which in turn borrowed ideas from Egyptian hieroglyphics
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• , a number of secular universities existed, such as the University of Bologna,
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• The 12th and 13th century renascence known as the Scholastic Movement was spread through the monasteries.
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• Many of the earliest universities, such as the University of Paris founded in 1160, had a Christian basis.
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• In China, the early oracle bone script has survived on tens of thousands of oracle bones dating from around 1400-1200 BC in the Shang Dynasty.
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• The merit-based imperial examination system for evaluating and selecting officials gave rise to schools that taught the Chinese classic texts and continued in use for 1,300 years, until the end the Qing Dynasty, being abolished in 1911 in favour of Western education methods
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• Inca education during the time of the Inca Empire in the 15th and 16th centuries was divided into two principal spheres: education for the upper classes and education for the general population.
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• the Ashikaga School, Ashikaga Gakko, flourished in the 15th century as a center of higher learning.
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• Betskoy's work in Russia was soon followed by the Polish establishment in 1773 of a Commission of National Education
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• in the 1770s, the establishment of the first chair of pedagogy at the University of Halle in Germany
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• Under the guidance of Wilhelm von Humboldt a new university was founded in Berlin in 1810 which became the model for many research universities
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• While the French trace the development of their educational system to Charlemagne, the modern era of French education begins at the end of the 19th century.
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• Elementary school enrollments climbed from about 40 or 50 percent of the school-age population in the 1870s to more than 90 percent by 1900, despite strong public protest, especially against school fees.
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• School textbooks based on Confucianism were replaced by westernized texts.
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• By the 1890s, schools were generating new sensibilities
• After 1890 Japan had numerous reformers, child experts, magazine editors, and well-educated mothers who bought into the new sensibility -
• These ideals, embodied in the 1890 Imperial Rescript on Education, along with highly centralized government control over education, largely guided Japanese education until 1945, when they were massively repudiated
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• Lord Curzon, the Viceroy 1899-1905, made mass education a high priority after finding that no more than 20% of India's children attended school
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• Until at least 1900 AD, in most African countries south of the Sahara, children received traditional informal education on matters such as artistic performances, ceremonies, rituals, games, festivals, dancing, singing, and drawing.
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• In the 9th century, Bimaristan medical schools were formed in the medieval Islamic world, where medical diplomas were issued to students of Islamic medicine who were qualified to be a practicing Doctor of Medicine.
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• During the 8th Party Congress of 1919, the creation of the new Socialist system of education was proclaimed the major aim of the Soviet government
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• An important aspect of the early campaign for literacy and education was the policy of "indigenization" (korenizatsiya). This policy, which lasted essentially from the mid-1920s to the late 1930s,
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• Al-Azhar University, founded in Cairo, Egypt in 975, was a Jami'ah ("university" in Arabic) which offered a variety of post-graduate degrees, had a Madrasah and theological seminary, and taught Islamic law, Islamic jurisprudence, Arabic grammar, Islamic astronomy, early Islamic philosophy and logic in Islamic philosophy.
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• According to UNESCO's Regional overview on sub-Saharan Africa, in 2000 only 58% of children were enrolled in primary schools, the lowest enrollment rate of any region
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• Later, the world's oldest known alphabet was developed in central Egypt around 2000 BC from a hieroglyphic prototype
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• The earliest Sumerian versions of the epic date from as early as the Third Dynasty of Ur (2150-2000 BC)
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• The first schools in Ancient Rome arose by the middle of the 4th century BC
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• Nalanda was a Buddhist center of learning founded in Bihar, India around the 5th century and conferred academic degree titles to its graduates, while also offering post-graduate courses. It has been called "one of the first great universities in recorded history."
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Heian-kyo (today's Kyoto), the imperial capital, had five institutions of higher learning,
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• The House of Wisdom in Bagdad was a library, translation and educational centre from the 9th to 13th centuries.
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• Henoch supposedly wrote the Book of Henoch in Ethiopic around c. 3350 BC.
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• In Egypt fully developed hieroglyphs were in use at Abydos as early as 3400 BC