The earliest educational work in the West is On the Education of Speakers by quintilian, an educator in the ancient Roman Empire, also known as On the Cultivation of Speakers or The Principle of Eloquence. Quintilian was a famous educator in ancient Rome. He is a pioneer in greatly developing and perfecting educational methods and ideas in the history of education. He advocates that the education of children should be encouraging and can stimulate their interest.

Quintilian's introduction:

Quintilian was a famous lawyer and educator in ancient Rome, the first professor of rhetoric appointed by the royal family, and the most accomplished educator in Rome in the/kloc-0 century. He was born in Spain, and his father taught eloquence in Rome, which is quite famous. When quintilian was a teenager, he went to Rome with his father to study and receive eloquence education. He has been a lawyer for 10 years.

In 70 AD, he was appointed as the director of a national Latin rhetoric school. Because of his attainments in eloquence and achievements in running a school, he became the first teacher of the lecture when the Roman Empire set up a lecture on eloquence paid by the state in 78 AD.