This paper mainly discusses the cultivation and education of public speakers, which reflects the basic content and characteristics of quintilian's educational thought.
The book Principles of Eloquence has a total of 65,438+02 volumes, mainly discussing various theoretical issues related to eloquence. The above-mentioned volumes systematically summarize the author's rich educational practice experience in his life, comprehensively put forward the basic principles and ideas of speaker education, and especially elaborated the teaching theory in detail.
The principle of eloquence takes cultivating eloquent people (that is, speakers) as the basic goal of education. It is believed that an orator should not only be eloquent, familiar with all kinds of valuable knowledge and have high talents, but also have lofty thoughts and noble sentiments in order to become a kind person. For an orator, talent and virtue are interrelated and indispensable. In a sense, virtue is more important than ability.
Among them, Volumes 1, 2, 3 and 12 systematically discuss the cultivation and education of speakers, reflecting the basic contents and characteristics of quintilian's educational thought. Volume L, including preface and text (chapter 12), mainly analyzes the purpose, form, process, content and methods of speaker education. Chapter 2 1 of the second volume systematically discusses the essence and purpose of eloquence, focusing on the basic methods of eloquence teaching. The third volume discusses the origin, composition and rules of eloquence. Volume 12, including the preface and the text of chapter 1 1, mainly expounds the qualities that an ideal speaker should have, especially the moral quality and the methods of moral education. Its main contents include the following parts.
Quintilian (35-100,40-114 or 1 18) was an orator and educator in the Roman Empire. In the history of education in ancient Rome, quintilian was the most famous and influential educational theorist and practitioner. He systematically summed up the practical experience of Roman school education in theory, put forward a relatively complete educational thought, made important contributions to the development of Roman education, and had a wide and far-reaching impact on the humanistic educational practice and educational theory research in later generations, especially in Renaissance Western Europe.