Quintilian on Education

includes index and biblioraphy

Selected passages from the institutio oratoria The method of Primary instruction ......11 The comparative merits of Private and public instruction ............21 Methods of discerning ability in the young and of handling them ............30 Grammar......34 Is a knowledge of a variety of subjects neccessary for the future orator ............47 Elementary instruction in speech and gesture ...........60 Can boys be taught a number of subjects at the same time ........64 when should the pupil pas on tho the school of Rhetoric ........69 The character and responsibilities of the teacher .................73 The first exercises in the school of rhetoric .......80 The reading of orators and historians in the school of rhetoric ..........91 Learning by heart .............99 Should the training of each pupil follow his natural bent.........1010 The duty of the pupil ..........105 Book XII The orator must be a good man ................108 The orator must know how character is formed ............120 Style in oratory ...........128