SOURCE BOOK OF THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION FOR THE GREEK AND ROMAN PERIOD

Since neither history nor education has a meaning of universal acceptation, the “History of Education” present for solution a problem containing two variable quantities. The purpose of this volume is to render accessible to the student with limited time library facilities, the ideas of the Greeks and Romans concerning education, and such descriptions of their educational systems as are given in their own literature. This volumes is designed as a text; hence the sources are classified into periods in order to afford the student aid in their interpretation and each group of sources is accompanied by a brief introductory sketch indicating the general setting of the period to which it belongs and the main principles of interpretation to be followed. These introductory chapters furnish little more than a syllabus for study; the interpretation is purposely left in a large degree to the student.