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The
Roman school is the education system of the
Ancient Rome.
Each school day of Ancient Rome was believed to begin before sunrise, and last until late afternoon. The fixed beginning of the school year was March 24th, which is held in honor of
Minerva, the Roman Goddess of Wisdom and Knowledge.
In earlier times, a boy's education would have taken place at home. His father would have taught him to read and write with ivory alphabet blocks, and would have prepared him for war with wooden swords. On the other hand, mothers taught their girls to sew, weave, clean and spin cloth.
The Roman education was divided into three stages:
Primary (first stage)
Students would be accompanied by
slaves: one to escort him and another to carry his books and possessions. The students would write on a
cera (
wax tablet) with a
Stylus to practice their scripting. This then gave them the option of writing in ink on
parchment or
papyrus with a
quill. If the students were disobedient they'd suffer corporal punishments such as a rap across the knuckles with a rod for being disobedient or disrespectful, being hit with a birch for not knowing the answer to a question, being whipped with a leather strap for making a serious mistake and being whipped with a strap with knots in it continuously for not knowing the answers to multiple questions.
Secondary (second stage)
Boys aged 12-15 studied language and literature either at home with a personal tutor, a gifted slave, or (boys could only go away home) in public with a grammaticus. Under the Empire, a primary position was given to
Virgil's Aeneid. Girls weren't allowed to continue at home.
The works that were studied allowed students to practice their reading and to develop their ability to comment on grammar, figures of speech, and the writer's use of mythology. The primary school was for the children aged seven to twelve. The schools cost a lot of money and not every parent sent their child to school.
Tertiary (third stage)
Around 16,
rhetoric was studied in public lectures. There were two main types of rhetorical exercise:
» #Suasoriae: Developed boy's skills in constructing arguments
#Controversiae: Devised arguments for and against the accused
Teachers
At Rome from the time of
Julius Caesar onwards, there were privileges for teachers who were also Roman citizens. Emperor
Vespasian (Emperor from 69-79 AD) founded two chairs for the teaching of Greek and Latin rhetoric;
Quintilian was the first holder of the Latin chair. Outside Rome, Vespasian granted exemption from civic obligation to teachers of grammar and rhetoric.
The spread of Roman culture and domination in the West was made possible by the teaching of a fairly standard and difficult curriculum to the sons of the local elites.
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