During fifth stage they study
dialect for another five years and after that, at the sixth stage one is ready
to become a ruler and philosopher and the one enter in practical life.
The 11th
century was a dark era for education. Few people in Western Europe were
receiving any kind of schooling and across the globe; contributions were being
made to the future of education. In
China, printing by movable type was invented in 1045, and proved to be one of
the most powerful inventions of this era which affect the curriculum
development process and bring huge change in the improvement of curriculum and
contents of the curriculum around the world. With future educational systems
focusing on the written word, the invention of type printing set the path for
future publications. The first paper mill was built in France in 1338. Paper
was a Chinese invention (c. 600 AD), brought to Europe by the Arabs in the 11th
century.
The
great educator of Islam, Imam Ghazali was born in 1059 AD near Tus in Khurasan,
a part of the then Persia.
His
educational philosophy based on his personal experience. The philosophy, which
he formulated over a period of 10 years, resembles to the Philosophy of Plato.
He used his personal experience and concluded the reasons