<span>Education began in prehistory, as adults trained the young in the knowledge and skills deemed necessary in their society. In pre<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy" target="" rel="" title="Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy">literate</a>&nbsp;societies, this was achieved orally and through imitation. Story-telling passed knowledge, values, and skills from one generation to the next. As cultures began to extend their&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge" target="" rel="">knowledge</a>&nbsp;beyond skills that could be readily learned through imitation, formal education developed. Schools existed in Egypt at the time of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Kingdom_of_Egypt" target="" rel="">Middle Kingdom</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education#cite_note-4" target="" rel="">[4]</a></span><div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ricci_Guangqi_2.jpg" target="" rel=""><img width="170" alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Ricci_Guangqi_2.jpg/170px-Ricci_Guangqi_2.jpg" height="254" title="Image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Ricci_Guangqi_2.jpg/170px-Ricci_Guangqi_2.jpg"></a><div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ricci_Guangqi_2.jpg" target="" rel=""></a></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matteo_Ricci" target="" rel="">Matteo Ricci</a>&nbsp;(left) and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Guangqi" target="" rel="">Xu Guangqi</a>&nbsp;(right) in the Chinese edition of&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid%27s_Elements" target="" rel="" title="Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid%27s_Elements">Euclid's Elements</a>&nbsp;</i>published in 1607</div></div></div><span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato" target="" rel="">Plato</a>&nbsp;founded the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_Academy" target="" rel="" title="Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_Academy">Academy</a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Athens" target="" rel="">Athens</a>, the first institution of higher learning in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe" target="" rel="">Europe</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education#cite_note-Br-5" target="" rel="">[5]</a>&nbsp;The city of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria" target="" rel="">Alexandria</a>&nbsp;in Egypt, established in 330 B.CE, became the successor to Athens as the intellectual cradle of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece" target="" rel="" title="Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece">Ancient Greece</a>. There, the great&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria" target="" rel="" title="Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria">Library of Alexandria</a>&nbsp;was built in the 3rd century BCE. European civilizations suffered a collapse of literacy and organization following the fall of Rome in CE 476.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education#cite_note-autogenerated2-6" target="" rel="">[6]</a></span><span>In&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China" target="" rel="">China</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius" target="" rel="">Confucius</a>&nbsp;(551–479 BCE), of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Lu" target="" rel="">State of Lu</a>, was the country's most influential ancient philosopher, whose educational outlook continues to influence the societies of China and neighbours like Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. Confucius gathered disciples and searched in vain for a ruler who would adopt his ideals for good governance, but his&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analects" target="" rel="">Analects</a>&nbsp;were written down by followers and have continued to influence education in East Asia into the modern era.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education#cite_note-7" target="" rel="">[7]</a></span><span>The&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztecs" target="" rel="">Aztecs</a>&nbsp;also had a well-developed theory about education, which has an equivalent word in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahuatl" target="" rel="">Nahuatl</a>&nbsp;called&nbsp;<i>tlacahuapahualiztli.</i>&nbsp;It means "the art of raising or educating a person"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education#cite_note-8" target="" rel="">[8]</a>&nbsp;or "the art of strengthening or bringing up men."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education#cite_note-:0-9" target="" rel="">[9]</a>&nbsp;This was a broad conceptualization of education, which prescribed that it begins at home, supported by formal schooling, and reinforced by community living. Historians cite that formal education was mandatory for everyone regardless of social class and gender.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education#cite_note-10" target="" rel="">[10]</a>&nbsp;There was also the word&nbsp;&nbsp;which is "the act of giving wisdom to the face."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education#cite_note-:0-9" target="" rel="">[9]</a>&nbsp;These concepts underscore a complex set of educational practices, which was oriented towards communicating to the next generation the experience and intellectual heritage of the past for the purpose of individual development and his integration into the community.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education#cite_note-:0-9" target="" rel="">[9]</a></span>

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