Sparta is great! They are kind to all of their people, they are all very educated, and they spend a lot of time as families together. That’s exactly what Sparta is, but the exact opposite. A few reasons why the weaknesses outweigh the strengths are that Sparta is actually very violent and abusive, Spartans lack education severely, and the boys were taken away from their families at a young age To begin with, the Spartans were very abusive. They have trained for war for years upon years, and are very successful, that is if they survive the training. If the training children did something wrong, they got whipped sometimes to the point of death. On document D, paragraph three, it says: ”The boys of Sparta were lashed with whips during the entire day at the altar of Artemis Orthia, frequently to the point of death, and they bravely endured this, cheerful and proud, vying with one another.” They didn’t treat each other well, and they usually die because of such events. Secondly, the Spartans lack education. On document D, paragraph 1, it says:”[The Spartans] learned to read and write for purely practical reasons: but all other forms of education they banned from the country, books and treatises being …show more content…
On document A paragraph 1, it says:” A [Spartan] father had no right to decide whether to rear his newly born son or not. He was obliged to take his baby to the elders of his tribe for inspection. If they were satisfied that he was strong and healthy, they gave it back to the father to be brought up; if not, they ordered it to be exposed [left outside to die]. A Spartiate’s son was nurtured by his parents only until he was seven years old. At that age, he was removed from his family and, from his eighth to his twenty-first year, he was educated by the state according to a rigorous [military-like] discipline. This state controlled education, or agoge, occupied a central place in the Spartan