Further if inadequate care is taken in the choices of respectable
 governors and instructors, I blush to mention the shameful abuse which
 scoundrels sometimes make of their right to administer corporal
 punishment or the opportunity not infrequently offered to others by the
 fear thus caused in the victims. I will not linger on this subject; it
 is more than enough if I have made my meaning clear. I will content
 myself with saying that children are helpless and easily victimised, and
 that therefore no one should be given unlimited power over them. I will now proceed to describe the subjects in which the boy must be
 trained, if he is to become an orator, and to indicate the age at which
 each should be commenced. As soon as the boy has learned to read and write
 without difficulty, it is the turn for the teacher grammaticus is the
 teacher of literature and languages; at times it is necessary to
 restrict its meaning to grammar. 
 of
 literature. My words apply equally to Greek and Latin masters, though I
 prefer that a start should be made with a Greek: