The History of Education: Educational Practice and Progress Considered as a Phase of the Development and Spread of Western CivilizationCubberley, Ellwood Patterson
History
The History of Education: Educational Practice and Progress Considered as a Phase of the Development and Spread of Western Civilization
Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
Education -- History
11. Why is a period of very rapid expansion in a State likely to be
demoralizing? How may the demoralization incident to such expansion be
anticipated and minimized?
12. Why does the coming of large landed estates introduce important social
problems? Have we the beginnings of a social problem of this type? What
correctives have we that Rome did not have?
13. State the economic changes which hastened the introduction of a new
type of higher training at Rome.
14. Was the Hellenization of Rome which ensued a good thing? Why?
15. How do you account for Rome not developing a state school system in
the period of great national need and change, instead of leaving the
matter to private initiative? Do you understand that any large percentage
of youths in the Roman State ever attended any school?
16. Why do older people usually oppose changes in school work manifestly
needed to meet changing national demands?
17. Compare the difficulties met with in learning to read Greek and Latin.
Either and English.
18. How do you account for the much smaller emphasis on literature and
music in the elementary instruction at Rome than at Athens? How for the
much larger emphasis on formal grammar in the secondary schools at Rome?
19. What subjects of study as we now know them were included in the Roman
study of grammar and rhetoric?
20. How do you explain the greater emphasis placed by the Romans on
secondary education than on elementary education?
21. What particular Roman need did the higher schools of oratory and
rhetoric supply?
22. What does the exclusive devotion of these schools to such studies
indicate as to professional opportunities at Rome?
23. How do you account for the continuance of these schools in favor, and
for the aid and encouragement they received from the later Emperors, when
the very nature of the Empire in large part destroyed the careers for
which they trained?
24. Compare Rome and the United States in their attitudes toward foreign-
born peoples.
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