Life in the Roman world of Nero and StPaul . for a while. There were of courseacademies of a better class than these schools open to the street, and probablyPublius Silius would betaken to one where his guardian waits withothers in an antechamber,while he is himself beingtaught in a room wherethe walls are pictured withhistorical or mythologicalscenes, or with charts ormaps, and where there standbusts of eminent boys are seated onbenches or forms, and the master on a high-backedchair. WTien the pupil is called upon to repeat alesson, he stands up before the teacher; when thewhole c
Life in the Roman world of Nero and StPaul . for a while. There were of courseacademies of a better class than these schools open to the street, and probablyPublius Silius would betaken to one where his guardian waits withothers in an antechamber,while he is himself beingtaught in a room wherethe walls are pictured withhistorical or mythologicalscenes, or with charts ormaps, and where there standbusts of eminent boys are seated onbenches or forms, and the master on a high-backedchair. WTien the pupil is called upon to repeat alesson, he stands up before the teacher; when thewhole class is to deliver a dictated passage it risesand delivers it all together, in orthodox sing-songstyle. Somewhere towards eleven oclock there is aninterval, and the boys go home for lunch or buysomething from the seller of rissoles or sausages inthe street. In the afternoon — when the schoolmasterhas taken his own luncheon and probably his shortsiesta — they return to school, putting in aljtogetherabout six hours of lessons in the Fig. 95. — Horsixg a Boy.(After Sachs.) xvn CHILDREN AND EDUCATION 327 That boys and girls went to the same elementaryschools is not absolutel}^ provable from an}- exphcitstatement to that effect; but there are one or twopassages in literature which point almost certainlyto that conclusion. It is at least undeniable thatgirls, and even big girls, went to school, and that inthose schools tiiey were taught bj^ men. One school-master is addressed by the poet as detestable toboth boys and girls. We have seen that in maturitythe Roman woman lived in no sort of seclusion; andit is reasonable to suppose that as a ghl she wastreated in much the same way as girls in a mixedschool of to-day. Nevertheless it is also almostcertain that such mixed schools were only those ofthe common people, or of the lower middle classes:the daughters of the better-circumstanced would beinstructed at home by private tutors. There theywould learn to read and write both
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