What would you think of a government that inspected your baby boys to see if you got to keep them, and then took them away from you at age seven? I know I wouldn’t like it. But that was just how it went in Sparta, whether you liked it or not. That is the question I have to answer in this essay: Education in Sparta: Did the Strengths Outweigh the Weaknesses? I will explain the age that boys went to school, how important physical fitness was, and other interesting, and sometimes odd, facts. In the end though, I am surprised that Sparta made it as a city since they had such different laws. According to Document A, “A [Spartan’s] son was nurtured by his parents only until he was seven years old.” Then he was taken to state-controlled education,