Historical evolution of the division of children by age

At all times in the life of mankind, one of the main problems has been the upbringing of children, their introduction to work. The effectiveness of this educational process directly depended on taking into account the age characteristics of children. In accordance with the age of the children, the content and forms of educational work are also built-in modern pedagogy and psychology. In this article, we review the age classification of children, from the times of ancient Greece to the present day. As the main classifiers, we consider the approaches and views of such scientists and thinkers as Aristotle, Ya. A. Komensky, J. J. Rousseau, A. Disterweg, K. D. Ushinsky, L. S. Vygotsky and some others. The works of teachers and psychologists are analyzed comparatively. They serve as the methodological basis of our study of the ethnopedagogical direction. The division of children’s psychology by age has its own long history and the implementation of educational and research work in accordance with this is a requirement of the time.