CLASSICS 2K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: 6 Years, Ludi
2 Feb 2016
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Parents taught children what they needed for life and there were no formal teachers. Included reading and writing, basic numerical literacy, life skills (eg. swimming, fighting, sewing) Focused on preparing children for life, not on improving their minds or expanding knowledge. Greek influence led to the increasing complexity and formalization of roman education. New ideas about what an aristocrat should know. Increasing interest in greek literature incorporated into roman education. Copied greek models of education, especially the focus on having non-family members as teachers. Learning greek, not just latin, became an important part of education for many romans. Nutrix: nurse who was not an educator, but played a role in early development. Cicero: both parents should be as educated as possible, because children emulate their speech. Typically, children would learn the earliest elements of literacy at home. Some worried about the influence of slave caregivers, but they were common for the upper- class paedogogus.
