Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Curriculum: Quintilian

"Quintilian disapproves of the common practice of learning the names and sequences of the letters without regard to their form and function; he feels that such a method really hinders the child’s recognition of the letters when arranged in a different order. He prefers the syllabic method…”

 

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (c. 35 – c. 100 AD) was a Roman educator and rhetorician from Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing.


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