The purpose of quintilian's education is to cultivate speakers with the highest moral accomplishment, so he put forward a set of educational programs that have great influence on later generations. Quintilian believes that a person should receive a good family education from childhood and be influenced by pure morality. Quintilian attaches great importance to the value of school education, and thinks that children can become successful speakers only after learning in primary schools, middle schools and rhetoric schools. Quintilian also attaches great importance to the role of teachers and the cultivation of students' creativity, but he also strongly condemns teachers' corporal punishment of students. He believes that teachers should pursue knowledge all their lives, constantly enrich themselves and use reasonable educational methods in order to cultivate better students.
Quintilian is a master of the educational experience of ancient Greece and Rome, and the modern western educational model is actually established according to his educational theory.