Only the children of rich parents went to school,starting at about the age of seven. They left primary school at the age of twelve.Boys went on to secondary school but girls,who were allowed to marry at the age of twelve,usually stopped going to school or had a home .
Lessons were dull with lots of copying and learning by heart. Schoolmasters were very strict and some beat their pupils.
Math was taught with an abacus. Pupils wrote on wooden boards spread with wax. They wrote in the wax with the point of a bronze or wooden stilus and rubbed out mitakes with the flattened end. The wax was smoothed and used many times.
Lessons were dull with lots of copying and learning by heart. Schoolmasters were very strict and some beat their pupils. Math was taught with an abacus. Pupils wrote on wooden boards spread with wax. They wrote in the wax with the point of a bronze or wooden stilus and rubbed out mitakes with the flattened end. The wax was smoothed and used many times.
The school began at dawn and lasted about six houres, with a mid-day break for the pupils to eat their picnic lunch. As the Romans had no weekends,the pupils had to work for seven days before they had a day off for market day.
School were very small,just one teacher with a class of ten pupils.Young children learned reading,writing and maths. Older children learned grammar, history, geography and how to speak well in public.
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