ABSTRACT
Teachers in classical Greece were hired by parents for a fee and had to provide a room to teach in – they would take a number of students. The term ‘character virtues’ is a translation of ethike arete while intellectual virtue is dianoetike in classical Greek. Both the moral and intellectual virtues play vital and indeed indispensable parts in the formation of character and represent the foundation of the entire structure of Aristotelian character. The foundation of Roman education was, the home and family, from which children derived their character formation. Both Sparta and Athens practiced eugenics and infanticide was common with a committee deciding in Sparta and the father in Athens whether a child is fit to live or die. The ancient Greek rhetorian, Isocrates believed that the teacher must not only know his subject, but be an embodiment of the educational goals he asks his student to attain.
