schooling
- In the early roman republic, children were educated their parents at home.
- These school were very small, with only about 12 students, and classes were held in single rooms or behind shops.
- Students sat on benches,wrote on wax tablets and read from scrolls.
- Teachers were very strict and used the cane or strap on their pupils to make them learn.
- Most students left school when they were about 12 years old.
- Only very rich parents would send their sons to s secondary school where history, geography, music, philosophy, Greek and Latin were taught.
- Classes began early in the morning, sometime while it was it was still dark.