What was education like in ancient Roman?

Answer 1

A child's primary educators were likely to be his or her own parents. Parents taught their children the skills necessary for living in the early Republic, namely agricultural, domestic and military skills. Most important, however, were the moral and civic responsibilities that would be expected of citizens of the Republic, the inculcation of the qualities of the vir bonus, "good man".[1] In its earliest stages, Roman education thus not only provided the basic skills necessary for survival, but also conveyed the mos maiorum, the traditional social code that created a coherent society.

The first schools in Rome arose by the middle of the 4th century BC,[2] coinciding with the rise of the plebeian class to political power. These schools were called ludi (singular: ludus), the Latin word for "play," and like modern "play schools" were concerned with basic socialization and rudimentary education for young children. In the second half of the 3rd century BC, an ex-slave named Spurius Carvilius is credited with opening the first fee-paying ludus,[3] thereby creating a teaching profession in ancient Rome. Organized education remained relatively rare, and there are few primary sources or accounts of the Roman educational process until the 2nd century BC.