What are our sources for learning about the Roman educational system?
We have some primary materials – items actually used by boys and girls in the Roman empire, like wax tablets with fables copied on them and bits of wood and shards of pots where students in Roman Egypt practised writing and sometimes made mistakes. At Pompeii students scrawled lines of the on house walls. But we have a great deal more that is descriptive and prescriptive. Ancient authors recalled