Chapter Five

The oldest schools were between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Sumer (Mesopotamia). Temple schools were also in ancient Egypt. The Socratic Method is a dialectal teaching method employed by Socrates using a questioning process based on the student's experiences and analyzing the consequences of responses, leading the student to a better understanding of the problem. Toward the end of the middle ages, there were about eighty universities. Chapter five explored Humanism which is the dominant philosophy of the Renaissance that emphasized the importance of human beings and promoted the literature and art of Rome and Greece. Chapter five also explored Naturalism which is a philosophy that emphasizes the natural world, the freedom if the individual, and the development that is natural in humans. Chapter five was quite interesting because the reader was able to see how much education has progressed over the course of many years. It is truly incredible!