1. EARLY CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AND MUSLIM EDUCATION

2. *---EARLY CHRISTIAN---* EDUCATION

3. The Roman Catholic Church was the “Center of Education and Literacy”.
AIMS OF EDUCATION The Primary aim of Early Christian Education was the moral regeneration of the Individual.

4. TYPES OF EDUCATION CONTENTS OF EDUCATION Moral Religious
The Basic Elements of Church
Doctrine
Church Rituals
Moral Virtues

5. AGENCIES OF EDUCATION METHODS USED Catechumenal Schools
Catechetical Schools
Cathedral Schools
METHODS USED
Impromptu Exposition
Exhortation
Example Methods
Catechetical method
Rote Recitation

6. MONASTICISM Three Main Principles  Obedience  Simplicity  Industry
Comes from the Greek word “monachos,” a solitary person.
Monk - The regular clergy, comes from the Greek word “monos” meaning alone.
Three Main Principles  Obedience  Simplicity  Industry

7. Aim of Monastic Education
Salvation of individual souls.
A kind of moral and physical discipline based on bodily mortification and wordly renunciation for the sake of moral development.

8. Three Vows of Monastic Education
Chastity – involved giving up the family and all human relationships.
Poverty – meant rejection of all materials in life.
Obedience – included renunciation of rank and distinction.
Types of Monastic Education
Literacy activities
Manual training

9. Content of Monastic Education
Reading
Writing
Arithmetic
Seven Liberal Arts
Trivium Quadrivium
Grammar Arithmetic
Rhetoric Geometry
Dialect Astronomy
Music

10. *---MUSLIM EDUCATION---*

11. CONTENTS Aims of education Curriculum
Organization of Islamic education
Methods of teaching
Role of teacher
Educational implications

12. AIMS OF EDUCATION Preparation of the individual for future life.
Religious knowledge for salvation
Propagation of religious knowledge
Propagation of Islamic law and Islamic value system

13. CURRICULUM Quran The biography of hazrath Muhammad Laws of Islam
Arabic and Persian languages
Grammar
Literature
Logic
Philosophy
Astrology
History
Geography
Agriculture
Unani system of medicine
Sanskrit for Hindu children

14. Organization of Islamic education
Bismillah (a ritual at the age of four)
Maktab (primary school)
Madrasa (first modern univesities)

15. Methods of teaching
Memory method for memorization of various aspects of knowledge
Recitation method
Reading method
Writing method
Oral methods

16. Teachers were used to be holy persons.
Role of teacher
Teachers were used to be holy persons.
Teachers used to develop a personality of the students using different methods.
They used to follow the principles of reward and punishment.
Medium of instruction used by teachers was Arabic and Persian.
Student-teacher relationship were harmonious. Teachers used to behave like parents.

17. Educational implications
Education is sacred as it was Allah himself who educated the first man.
More emphasis on reading and writing.
Education is a continuous process.
Education is not restricted to what went within the school.
No gender restrictions in education.