> There was an exception in Sparta, where education was part of the facist indoctrination, similar to the system in the DDR or USSR That's an interesting descr

> There was an exception in Sparta, where education was part of the facist indoctrination, similar to the system in the DDR or USSR That's an interesting description considering those schools were only accessible to the elite rather than the general population. > which was a society whose closest modern analog might be Da'esh (AKA ISIS) Rather a random thing to say? I don't see that many similarities. For one thing (upper class) women in Sparta (or Rome for that matter) had considerably more rights than in Athens for instance (which was probably even worse than modern Saudi Arabia in that regard). > literacy among the plebians. Most of the Roman upper class was plebian.