... and quotations showed that students read Iliad continuously and select readings in Odyssey. Schools manly depended on a single oftentimes male teacher where he could find students and a place to gather and teach them. Sometimes, women could be teachers too. Elite students rose from primary to grammatical to rhetorical level of education. In ancient Rome, education was available only to those who can afford it. This, of course, comprised only a fraction of the total population. Education has both cultural and practical purposes. The method of teaching elementary education was evident in the letters written by the students to their parents in papyrus. Most of these papyri were recovered from Greek settlements in Egypt because of the dry weather from that part of the country which preserved the papyrus. Writing comes first in elementary teaching. The children were first taught to copy letters and phrases even without knowing what they ...

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