EDUCATION IN ANCIENT ROME

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education in ancient rome

5. Curiosities

4. The imperial age

3. Schooling

2. Rich and poors

1. Origins

INDEX

• There was no building specifically designated for school use.

• In other situations educated slaves taught to their master’s children

• In ancient times, in Rome weren’t any schools, but the parents taught their sons in their houses

origins of school in ancient rome

rich and poors

Since classes started very early, the poor children left the house lighting the way with a lantern and had to go out when it was still dark. Rich boys were usually accompanied by a slave who brought for them the books and the necessities for the lesson. The poor boy, on the other hand, had to bring the waxed tablets, the breakfast food and the necessities himself.

3. The rhetorician's school: 17 (high school and university)

2. The Grammaticus school: 12-15/16 (middle and high school

1. Ludi magister: 6-12 (primary and middle school)

The complete course of study included three levels of education, corresponding to our primary, middle and high school:

schooling

With the beginning of the Roman Empire, children began to attend the ludi magisters.

the imperial age

7. During the imperial age, even semi-free slaves were allowed to go to school.

9. Only the most deserving children could have been taught by the rhetor, the last degree of roman education.

10. the teachers, to be obeyed, often had to resort to the whip and other corporal punishment

5. In Roman schools music was a subject too, and every student had some musical instruments

4. Education in ancient Rome was not limited to the school environment.

3. The teaching profession was poorly regarded socially and poorly paid.

8. There were three categories of teachers

2. The teaching consisted of written and oral exercises.

6. The most talented and ambitious students were sent in the most important ancient cities to attend the famous geografy, astronomy, phisics and filosofy teachers’ schools.

1. The big school buildings of today didn’t exist

curiosities

Bianca Fracassi, Nicole Alfano, Isabella Licaj, Giorgia Pitzalis e Sofia Martini.

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