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History of Education This essay attempts to discuss the area of childhood through the ages. The concept of childhood was firstly found by a French historian called Aries. Aries studied childhood through the ages but it was argued that "his thesis under-estimated the nature of childhood within changing household structures of family forms"(Gelis,1986: Stone1974). Aries believed that during medieval society children were no more than little adults. There was no realisation of childhood. They were treat as little adults as soon as they could walk and talk. Between the 15th and 18th Century children became more a sense of amusement for adults, there was no regard for childhood and no understanding of the development of children. The only educational dimension of childhood at this stage was by 'churchmen or gentlemen of the robe.' This secured control over children's 'depravity' with emphasis on discipline and knowledge of theology, humanities and sciences. This...

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