It was a problem that there were three times as many helots as there were Spartan citizens. The solution was the Spartan citizens had a strong army to keep the helots from rebelling. Ancient Sparta is located in the southern part of Greece. Ancient Sparta made use of also the non-citizens. non-Spartans were free but could not be in a job at the government. Ancient Sparta has good security because they taught their boys at a young age. The weaknesses of Spartan education system outweighed the strengths in these ways: Breaking up families, lack of reading, and cruelty. To begin with, breaking up families was a major weakness of Spartan education. In Document A it states that “ A Spartiates son was natured by his parents only until he was seven. This occurred because they wanted the kids to train like warriors in case a battle broke out. It also says that “ At that age he would be removed from his family and from eight to twenty first year he was educated by the state. This also occurred because in ancient Sparta you can go to war at anytime.
Additionally, the lack of reading and writing was a gigantic factor of Spartan education due communication. In Document E it states that” Other farms of education they banned from the country, which included foreign countries”. This happened because most of the…show more content… In Document B it states that” The Spartans chastise those who get caught for stealing badly”. This happened because the person that was caught was not listening so they got punished. In Document A it states that ” A Spartan father could not choose to rear his newly born son or not”. This happened because the baby has to be born with a little weight so when it grows up it will not have a bad disease. While it might be true that Spartans security is excellent due to being trained at a young age, still in all they did not have as much of the smart’s they
