Selected Works of Quintilian on Education

Author: Ren Zhongyin
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: Marcus Fabius Quintilian was the most accomplished educator of the 1st century AD in Rome. Among all the works written during the Roman era, only Quintilian's 12-volume masterpiece, Institutio Oratoria, systematically discusses the education of the younger generation, while educational remarks in other works are scattered. Quintilian is the synthesizer of ancient Greek and Roman educational thought and experience, and the most outstanding teaching method scholar in the West before Comenius. During the Renaissance, once the long-lost works of Quintilian were rediscovered from the dust, they immediately shone brilliantly, captivating humanists weary of scholasticism. Many of Quintilian's educational insights and experiences remain instructive to this day.