Sumerian Education

 Sumerian education can be seen as both vocational and religious because their education was not centered around things such as "making money." There was a deeper, religious purpose to their education. The Sumerians played a major role in the creation of methods such as writing, which can be seen as a very important component of our educational systems or curriculums today. 



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