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Examine 3 historical periods up until 1970 s and how present day general education and or special education was clearly influenced by the events or philosophies of the past period I e compare and contrast In addition examine the role of female educators teachers in the 3 historical periods and how they affected their eras The 3 historical eras should be 1 ancient day greece philosophers teachers etc 2 the renaissance and 3 the civil war to 1970 s Use male teachers educators etc as in Greece Aristotle Plato etc in addition to finding females Try to find specific female teachers and educators who made a difference intheir eras or with their philosophies e g Emma Willard Elizabeth Palmer Peabody and Jane Adams for era 3 but of course include male scholars Please see Additional specifications outline

...... The Renaissance also proves an interesting period for the study of the history of education as the time is often seen as an awakening of ideas, but the ideas themselves were borrowed from the Greek and Roman tradition, newly codified by the discovering scholars. Interestingly enough it is a well-founded claim that not only did the traditional materials become a core of the education system, the ancient teaching style was also revived and the oratory/rhetorical was once again emphasizes as the best manner in which to impart ideas. In an example, the history of the educator and writer Milton is examined
That Milton should aspire to such literary and oratorical ideals as moved the orators and poets of antiquity is natural enough, for he had an early education very like their own. Indeed in Milton's boyhood formal education in the English grammar schools was as exclusively literary as formal education had been in the Roman schools of the first century. In Imperial Rome and in Renaissance England all seven of the Liberal Arts were honored as the basis of a liberal education, but in both periods the mathematical arts of the quadrivium (Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, and Astronomy) were honored