The Origins of Humanistic Culture

For the greeks and romans both, education was essentially an initiation into the greek way of life. The curriculum of humane schooling began to take shape with isocrates. Philology, the science of language, was launched at mitaline. Textual criticism at ephesus. Men studied the admired works of the past and strove to imitate them. Neither brutes nor barbarians can read here we see that a key purpose of education is a fundamentally conservative or preservative one.