Vases from the Ancient Greek ages that are even before 500 B.C depict the traces of Greek Education system among boys and girls of that era, even though it wasn't a legal requirement of that time. Education back then seems to be more common amongst boys than it was in girls, but still girls were educated in separate schools. As for boys, they used to start their education as they turned seven and after gaining basic education they used to drop out after four or five years. But that wasn't the case with the wealthier students, the time span for their education used to last for about ten years. Parents of rich students also used to hire a slave that used to escort the boys to three different schools that they had to go for their academic, sports and music's education. Slaves were called paidagogos and their duty was to make sure that the boys reach the school safe and observe boys behavior and how well they are doing and give the report to their parents.

Back then, there were three types of teachers who taught three different things to the pupils, Teaching Reading, Writing, Arithmetic and literature was the duty of grammatistes. Apart from academics students back then were also involved in extra-curricular activities, and for that separate teachers were appointed. Teacher of sports like wrestling, boxing and gymnastics was called paidotribes and the teacher of music, singing and lyre was called kitharistes.

As soon as the boys turned 18, they were required to go through a two years military training. After the completion of the military training the students would go back for higher education to make them selves beneficent in pubic life. Ancient higher education institutions like The Academy, which was founded by Plato in 385 B.C and Aristotle's school called Lyceum, are base of modern day universities and colleges.

As far the education is concerned in the Ancient Sparta, they mainly focused on physical education and gave less consideration to academic or any other education because in Sparta boys used to spend most of their life in army in barracks. They're main aim was to strengthen the Spartan physically and that is why they treated harshly and were made to sleep on mat in barracks and were to have one cloak throughout their life. They were also taught basic reading, writing and arithmetic skills but that wasn't considered as important as physical education. Boys were also taught of stealing skills so that when they're with army they can steal as well, and any student getting caught while stealing would suffer harsh beating. They also used to beat up students just to make them strong as well and trained them in harsh temperature. As far as girls are concerned Spartan's thought that if the mother is strong then she would give birth to a strong child, that's why girls also used to live in barracks, but there were separate barracks for girls where they were provided with dancing and music's education along with physical education.

Some of the rich students also continued their education under the mentorship of great teachers and politicians. Students used to observe their way of talking and techniques of politics from their mentors. The education system of the rich ancient Greeks is also called Paideia.