2. The disinclination of the Roman mind to speculative inquiry, was a bar to the production of any contributions to the theory of education.
3. In the Institutes of Quintilian we see the first attempt to expound the art of teaching; and in the Morals of Plutarch we have the first formal treatise on the education of children.
4. In the later period of Roman education, we see a higher appreciation of woman, and a nobler conception of the family life.
5. In common with all the systems of education thus far studied, Roman education is essentially literary, ethical, and prudential, as distinguished from an education in science. The conception of the money value of knowledge had not yet appeared.]
FOOTNOTES:
[41] Plutarch, Morals, vol. I. p. 9.
[42] Cicero, De Republica, IV. 115.
[43] Cicero, De Divinatione, II. 2.
[44] In principle, this is the same as the system of writing commended by Locke: “Get a plate graved with the Characters of such a Hand as you like best ... let several sheets of good Writing-paper be printed off with red Ink, which he has nothing to do but go over with a good Pen fill’d with black Ink, which will quickly bring his Hand to the Formation of those Characters, being first shewed where to begin, and how to form every Letter.” (On Education, § 160.) (P.)
[45] “Quintilian has treated this question with great breadth and eloquence.” (Traité des Études, Liv. IV. Art. 2.)