Part one of term paper
It seems evident that due to it's limited access via social castes as well as it's provincial ideology once attained, education before the 1800's played a limited role in the history of Education. From the rhetoric-based Greek age of Plato and Aristotle to colonial America, education was mostly an elitist institution that was inaccessible to ...

Part two of term paper
... were educated were among the small upper class. Elitist "education" was largely based on the ability to speak and persuade; a tool only truly necessary to those who were socially powerful. The later Roman education system was, although theoretically more accessible due to more schools, very similar to that of the Greeks. Those who were "truly educated" were well versed in Latin and were able to speak efficiently. However, when the Roman power system shifted from political to military, the valued voc ...