12.15.2011

Sophists and Freshmen Composition

From the most recent issue of Classical World ("The Progymnasmata in Imperial Greek Education"):
But Quintilian complains of Latin rhetors, the equivalent of Greek sophists, who wrongly forced the teaching of more difficult progymnasmata onto the grammarians. Those rhetors were like modern English professors who do not want to teach freshman composition. (p.79)

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