Education

Question 1

Writing materials

Answer 1

• 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

Question 2

What did they learn

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Different types of schools

Answer 3

• 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

Question 4

Did all children go to school

Answer 4

No

• some were tutored by slaves
• girls could only recieve lower level education
• some were taught by their parents

Question 5

what was school like for teachers

Answer 5

• Were expected to know all of history, poems and grammar
• had to pay long hours
• were payed badly

Question 6

What was school like for kids

Answer 6

• 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