Reflection # 16

As education to Romans became more popular and trendy, education started to develop a more complex form of knowledge. Rhetoric allowed you to learn how to write and speak, something you needed to learn in law courts or public life. Greeks thought as language being very high ranked and important. Everybody wanted to learn and absorb it. Speaking that language to them was like having a brand new pair of pumps to wear Saturday night at the club, it was the IT thing to know.
Three types of teachers they had were, grammaticus, litterator, or rhetor. Grammaticus taught you how to recite papers and corrected you on your pronunciation. Litterator teachers usually taught reading and writing, when the rhetor taught students how to make speeches from specific topics.
Rhetoric was implicated by Greece itself. What is called declamation took control over the school department. This was a system that allowed students to express themselves and perform a speech made up by each of them and debate amongst each other, making literature more exciting, while parents loved it. On the other hand, the controversia had a higher status than declamation did. The controversia was a well performed show, which that was very amusing and high ranked by others; the controversia was always performed in public. This form came from love poems, and fairy tales fantasy's people held within them. This had all sort of storytelling forms you can think of, so you can just imagine the effect this had in people.