PREFACE 9
Ⅰ．HOMER THE EDUCATOR OF GREECE 11
Ⅱ．SPARTA 14
1．The Great Refusal 14
2．The Spartan Agoge 18
3．One Quality Only 23
Ⅲ．ATHENS 30
1．The Citizen and the State 30
2．The Old Education 43
3．The New Education and the Sophists 49
4．Hellenistic Education 58
5．Home and School 61
6．Education for Wholeness 69
7．The Philosophers 77
8．Arete and Paideia 101
Ⅳ．ROME 106
1．Gravitas and Pietas 106
2．Early Roman Education 111
3．The Hellenizing of Rome 118
4．The Roman Schools 125
5．The Orbilian Tradition 130
6．Theory and Practice-Cicero，Quintilian，and Plutarch 133
7．Decline of the Ciceronian Ideal 147
Ⅴ．JUDEA 154
1．God and Man 154
2．The Preservers of the Faith 162
3．The Emergence of the School 164
4．The Home and the Shema 168
5．The School and the Torah 176
6．The Rod of Correction 182
7．The Hebrew Purpose 184
Ⅵ．OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES 188
1．That Education begins in the Home 190
2．That Education is Growth 190
3．That Environment influences Character 192
4．That Education involves Balance and Harmony 194
5．That Teachers should be Educated Men and Women 197
6．That Leisure is Activity for its Own Sake 199
7．That Democracy requires Leaders 201
8．That We must be Clear What We Educate for 203
FOR FURTHER READING 211
INDEX 213