As soon as the boy has learned to read and
[p. 63]
write without difficulty, it is the turn for the teacher1
of literature. My words apply equally to Greek and
Latin masters, though I prefer that a start should
be made with a Greek:
1 grammaticus is the teacher of literature and languages; at times it is necessary to restrict its meaning to “grammar.”
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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