The Principle of Eloquence is the work of quintilian (the most famous educational thinker in the history of education in ancient Rome). This book systematically shows the cultivation and education of public speakers, and reflects quintilian's educational thoughts and characteristics. In quintilian's view, the cultivation of orators should "start from babbling, go through all the education stages necessary for budding orators, and reach the peak of eloquence".
Quintilian believes that the development of speech features needs two good training stages.
The first stage: family education:
Quintilian attaches great importance to early childhood education. He believes that early childhood education can lay a preliminary foundation for cultivating virtuous and knowledgeable speakers. Early childhood education is carried out in the family, and parents, nannies and tutors are all early childhood educators. It is especially emphasized that nannies must be people with good moral character and accurate words, because their words and deeds will affect young children.
The second stage: primary school:
Quintilian opposed the traditional practice of Roman aristocrats to hire tutors, arguing that? Children should be educated at school as soon as possible. In his view, family education is easy for children to develop the habit of indifference, boasting and shyness.
However, school education is different. At school, students are concentrated, which provides an environment for making friends, as well as opportunities for competition and mutual observation and learning. Therefore, students trained from the learning samples can generally be competent as public speakers quickly and make speeches in public.
In addition, quintilian also strongly advocated and demonstrated that public education is superior to private education. Secondly, he asked future speakers to live in the most open and sunny public life, and be good at communicating with the society, so as to be constantly stimulated and encouraged.
Finally, in his study, he thinks that as an orator, he must have a broad and solid knowledge base. He particularly emphasized the importance of literature teaching (including studying the works of historians, scientists and poets). He said, "unless a good and real foundation is laid, the superstructure will collapse."
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Advantages of eloquence principle
1, systematically summarizes the practical experience of school education and teaching in ancient Greece and Rome, and raises it to the theoretical level, thus making an important contribution to sorting out, inheriting and developing the outstanding educational heritage of mankind.
2. Based on my life's practical experience, I put forward a series of valuable principles and methods of education, especially teaching, thus enriching human understanding of education and teaching activities.
3. Opinions on attaching importance to early education, class teaching system, teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, children's psychological research and teachers' quality requirements have profoundly revealed the universal laws in the teaching process and made important contributions to the development of western teaching theory. Some viewpoints still have practical significance today.
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