Education Flashcards

(6 cards)

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Writing materials

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  • Used pointed stilus on wooden tablets covered in wax
  • tablets could be strung together to form notebooks
  • Older students wrote on papyrus with quill and ink
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What did they learn

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  • Had a well rounded education
  • Knew Greek and Latin
    • Greek was used for buissness
  • Poetry
  • Music
  • Astronomy
  • philosphy
  • how to speak well
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3
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Different types of schools

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  • Schools were of different levels
  • Flavius’ school = very prestigious
  • Some children not from wealthy families went to schools like Flavius’
    • parents wanted to give them a good shot at life
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4
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Did all children go to school

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No

  • some were tutored by slaves
  • girls could only recieve lower level education
  • some were taught by their parents
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5
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what was school like for teachers

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  • Were expected to know all of history, poems and grammar
  • had to pay long hours
  • were payed badly
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What was school like for kids

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  • Schools started early
  • lasted 6 hours
  • sometimes got insetvies for working hard
    • food
    • prize
  • Some teachters got students to compete againts each other
  • corporal punishment was common
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