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Describe the ancient education in Rome

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Although here we talk about ancient education in Rome, in actual sense it is Greek education in Rome. But at first, the family dominated family education where the father was supreme. His words were final.
The ideal of the Roman education was to cultivate main lines and the self control. Individualism was not tolerated in the early roman republic. While the mother subject to the husband yet at the same time she remained a very respected member of the family.
Until age 7 the child remained the care of the mother or another trusted woman. The early training of the child was handed over to that of their fathers after the mother were satisfied that children had accomplished the mothers training the aim of the parental training was moral and practical rather than intellectual or aesthetic.
After 272 BC, many Greek scholars came to Rome, among them was Livius Andronicus he translated many Greek writings into Latin .The process of Hellenization of Rome came after the conquest Greek in 146BC.
The entire Greek development in the art were transferred to Rome such that whereas politics conquered Greek, Greek conquered Rome in the field of art and education.
The Romans simply absorbed and helped spread the Hellenistic culture but they selected what to absorb and modified others. At the same time they still honored and respected their trust traditions .The Romans build a formal education system which aimed at achieving two objectives. Those were:
-Roman culture
-Roman Unity
Romans were interested in producing decently educated men who were both cultured and practical.
The Roman most influential educational thinker was Quintilian 35-95 AD. Others were the following
-Marcus T. V Cicero 106-43 BC
-Marcus T. Varro 116-27 bc
-Martiinus Capella 5th C AD
On the greatest evidence of the Roman educational influence which has survived to our present life time is contained in the Roman idea of the universal empire or the unity of the world. Furthermore there is the concept of the ‘Pax Romana’ or the Roman peace.. This concept still guides and underlies the present civilization.
Similarly the Christianity the way we have come to know it, is the making of the Roman genius for organization. Christianity was recognized as the empirical religion within the Roman empire.

Titany answered the question on August 30, 2021 at 07:08

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