Greek Life And Thought From the Death of Alexander to the Roman Conquest
Greek Life And Thought From the Death of Alexander to the Roman Conquest
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It is part of the same development that we should see teaching specialised, and separate trainers appointed for each kind of exercise, bodily or mental. Then begins the same subdivision of labour which has taken place in our schools in the present century, since a number of new sub- jects have crept into the programme of education.^ This point is specially noticed by Philostratus (c. 15) in his tract on gymnastics. We may also safely infer that the special aptitudes of pupils became noted and d...eveloped, though we have to search all the way down to Julian for an allusion to a sort of conservatoire of music at Alex- andria, where poor boys with a good natural voice were supported and trained.^ This tendency was naturally strengthened by the growth of competitions, which we find even in the shape of school- examinations with prizes — that old vice of pandering not only to the ambition of children but to the vanity of elders.
We hear even of examinations held to test the qualification for a post.^ We have also the show day ; the children reciting or exhibiting before the perspiring parents ; nay, even prize exercises being published by being inscribed on stone.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It is part of the same development that we should see teaching specialised, and separate trainers appointed for each kind of exercise, bodily or mental. Then begins the same subdivision of labour which has taken place in our schools in the present century, since a number of new sub- jects have crept into the programme of education.^ This point is specially noticed by Philostratus (c. 15) in his tract on gymnastics. We may also safely infer that the special aptitudes of pupils became noted and d...eveloped, though we have to search all the way down to Julian for an allusion to a sort of conservatoire of music at Alex- andria, where poor boys with a good natural voice were supported and trained.^ This tendency was naturally strengthened by the growth of competitions, which we find even in the shape of school- examinations with prizes — that old vice of pandering not only to the ambition of children but to the vanity of elders.
We hear even of examinations held to test the qualification for a post.^ We have also the show day ; the children reciting or exhibiting before the perspiring parents ; nay, even prize exercises being published by being inscribed on stone.
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