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Comparisons to other city-states:
Spartan education is public, Athenian is private.
Sparta educates for war, Athens for peace.
Childhood
(1 to 7 years)

Family education
Plays, myths, stories
Care of the mother

Boyhood (1 to 14 years, School)

Promenade to school under the care of a pedagogue
Music

Poetry, Homer, Hesiod.
Writing of verses from dictation
Reading, intonation, articulation.
Music proper. Doric airs accompanied by the lyre [...]

What sort of education did the ancient Spartan’s receive? Here is a list of their educational methods from birth to manhood, taken from the “Outline History of Education”.