| | A Concise History of Education of Teachers, of Teacher Training and Teaching Western history of teacher training, education history, teaching theories, education of teachers, modern history od education, began in early 18th century Germany: teaching seminaries educating teachers were the first formal teacher training in Western history of education and teaching. (History of education had 2nd century-BC Greek Spartan free public education, Athenian Academy until age 18 and higher Academy and Lyceum; Roman private formal schooling in tiers; China?€™s 1st century-BC administrator examinations; 1st century Jewish informal Cul?€™ Tura general education; Islam?€™s 9th century universities [madrasahs]; 16th century Aztec mandatory teen education; 18th century Russian nation-wide education, Poland?€™s Education Ministry, Chez ?€?teacher of nations?€™ Comenius?€™s ?€?Didactica Magna?€™ on universal education [compulsory, certified teachers, tests]; leading later Western history of education ?€“17th century Scotland?€™s free education, 18th?€™s Norway?€™s mandatory literacy and New Zealand?€™s standard education, 21st?€™s Europe?€™s Bologna process equalising educational qualifications.) Teacher education and training, first teacher training college in French history of education and history of teaching, Jean Babtiste de la Salle?€™s 18th century Brothers of the Christian schools, had non-clerical male teachers teaching poor and middle class children |