Many important changes have taken place in the school education system at all levels during the Roman Empire, which are embodied in the following aspects:

(1) Primary education has not been paid attention to by the state, and the facilities for running schools in various places are quite simple, and the teaching focus of schools has also begun to shift from literature learning to grammar analysis.

(2) Grammar schools attach great importance to the teaching of Latin, and Latin grammar and Roman literature gradually dominate the teaching of grammar schools. Too much emphasis on speculation makes the teaching methods of grammar schools tend to formalism.

(3) Rhetoric school is greatly influenced by national politics, and the education and training goal has changed from training public speakers to training national officials. The main content of learning is rhetoric, but "rhetoric has become pure" and the learning method has become more formalistic; In order to meet the political and economic needs of the Roman Empire, the rulers established special schools in Rome to teach law, medicine and philosophy.

(4) During this period, the attitude of Roman rulers towards Christianity changed greatly. Christianity gradually evolved into a religious form acceptable to the ruling class, and Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire. It began to play an important role in the education and teaching of schools at all levels, and gradually occupied a dominant position.

From the historical changes of the ancient Roman education system, we can see that the ancient Roman education system changed with the changes of the national political and economic system, and the changes of educational objectives, educational contents and educational methods in various periods all illustrate this point; The process of educational reform and development in ancient Rome is a process of extensively absorbing advanced Greek educational experience and ideas and combining them with the reality in Rome. "Rome is not only a disseminator of Greek culture, but also a creator of culture. ..... She left a lot of things to future generations in her own way, which was enough to influence their past and present. " .