CAS CL 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Wax Tablet, Rhetoric, Declamation
25 Jan 2016
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However most people sent kids to teachers (not the ideal: early childhood education. Nurse: a female slave would nurse and care for the baby. Thought to influence the child"s health, morals, and language skills. 20-40 year old who had already given birth 2-3 times. Self-controlled, sympathetic, of your culture/language, not bad- tempered, tidy. Paedagogue: a male slave who looked after young children. Begins when the child is 6 or 7. Literacy (and ethics) taught through copying out proverbs. Location: wherever the teacher was, usually outside b/c hard to find money to rent room. Education in the roman world: roman ideals and ideas. Children born innocent, becomes corrupt through outside things. The moment they are born they absorb anything they see or. Traditional that the father teaches child hear. Students read (and memorized) great works of literature. Only the select (and very rich) few could attend. Limited to literator: changes under the empire. Apprenticeship (following political figure: education of women.
