Roman Education

1. Roman Education Learning Latin Old School Style

2. Some Basics about Education • most freeborn children (male and female) had basic education • wealthy children were educated at home by a Greek slave tutor • some children taught by professional private tutor (magister) • other children taught in a group school by the magister ludi

3. The Pedagogus • Slave that accompanied kids to school • sat in class to make sure they worked • helped with homework • eventually may open their own ludi

4. Elementary Education • reading, writing, arithmetic • tabellae- wax writing tablets • stylus- etches in wax, flat end to erase • abacus used for math • students repeat after magistri • taught to read out loud • outdoors classes, in public colonades

5. Grammar School students taught to read and interpret Latin and Greek literature no set age of completion taught by Grammaticus

6. Rhetoric School art of public speaking improve diction, project voice practice making arguments from mythological character’s point of view final exam: declamatio- a formal oration

7. Greek universities abroad- Academy at Athens advanced rhetoric philosophy Higher Education