A HISTORICAL EXAMPLE of GENDER INEQUALITY in EDUCATION: ANCIENT GREEK

Although education was a very important fact in the Ancient Greece, where the basis of the democracy was founded, the social life acts of the man and woman were very different and this condition has also effected majorly to the children’s education life. As there was no other expectation from the girls except from being a good wife and a mother, the formal education did not have an important role in their training at that for boys. When the antique sources were studied, the aspect that whether or not the girls went the same schools with boys is not definite Certainly it should be underlined that the girls mentioned here were the free citizens, the slave ones’ conditions were more far away from the chance of having an education and the mentioned Greek people were the women living in the city-states located outside the Sparta. Likewise in this point, Sparta was exceptional in this situation from many ways. Within this context, The Greek Civilization’s, which had a great effect especially to the modeling the modern western civilization, attitude to women and its reflection to the education were tried to be reviewed and tried to enlighten today by examining a period in which modern-day’s western education understanding has taken root. This study, which was carried out by the evaluation of the acquired data with the analysis of document from the qualitative data collection tools, the antique sources have been searched and these were compared and interpreted with the modern sources and archaeological discoveries