Învăţământul în Orientul antic
The Learning in Ancient Orient

Summary/Abstract: The writing appeared as a consequence of people’s desire to consign some facts and in the same time it was a way of communication between them taking in consideration the long distances. In Mesopotamia, writing was cuneiform and it was learn in schools. Those who wrote were the scribes and their job was very respected and appreciated in Sumero - Babylonians schools. The Sumerians schools from the XVIII century had also the libraries. In ancient Egypt they learned the hieroglyphics and the heatice writing. There, the schools were different : the children from rich families learned in royal palaces together with the sons of the kings and the children from poor families in modest schools from the villages situated near to the local altars. The public schools of the Jews appeared in the end of 2nd century BC. In Persia the children of the rich people learned in temples or in their own houses and the children from the County’s average in the schools of satrapies, for 20-24 years. In India, the brahmans teached in temples and later it appeared the universities; in Japan the children learned Japanese and Chinese in monasteries.

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