grammatist

“The _ludi magister_ at Rome held a position even less enviable than that held by the _grammatist_ at Athens.”

The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization

“The grammatist represented the earliest or primary teacher.”

The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization

“The teacher of this school came to be known as a _grammatist_.”

The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization

“The teacher in this school gradually separated himself from the grammatist, and often the two were found in adjoining rooms in the same school.”

The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization

“This corresponded to the school of the Athenian _grammatist_, and like it the instruction consisted of reading, writing, and counting.”

The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization

“To the _grammatist_, who was doubtless an evolution from an earlier tribal scribe, he went to learn to read and write and count.”

The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization

“a grammarian and a grammatist, applying the former term to men of real erudition, the latter to those whose pretensions to learning are moderate; and this opinion Orbilius supports by examples.”

De vita Caesarum