Quintilian's The Orator's Education

Books 1 and 2, deal with early childhood education. Trivial as it may seem today, Quintilian thought it important to discuss topics such as what should the parents do: educate the child at home or send him to school; discerning talent and temperament; the teaching of grammar (detecting barbarisms and solecisms); reading of the classics; discipline; nature versus nurture; is rhetoric and art—does it have any moral value? Is it useful? Etc.
Educators, teachers of all levels, historians, writers, students of the law, speakers, public speakers, politicians, administrators, managers, and business executives, will find these discussions enlightening. A well-rounded education should include the reading of all the books in Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria.