ABSTRACT
In Greece, there were two essentially different systems of education in use: at Sparta and at Athen. The first schools were not opened at Rome till towards the end of the third century BC. Till then, the Romans had no teachers save their parents and nature. Education was almost exclusively physical and moral, or rather, military and religious. Rome was the great school of the civic and military virtues. In contrast with Greek education, the chief characteristic of which was intellectual discipline or culture, Roman education may be called practical. Pedagogy, while in one sense a practical science, reposes upon philosophical principles, upon a knowledge of human nature, and upon a theoretical conception of human destiny, questions which had no living interest for the Roman mind. Greece and Rome have furnished the world with two distinct types of education, and their modern representatives are seen in classical and scientific courses.
