Excerpt from A Treatise on Pedagogics In ancient Greece, boys only were educated, and this work was usually entrusted to a slave, who was a constant attendant during the play and in the rambles of the boys of one or more families. This boy-leader, or pedagogue, was usually a Greek; only he was not, by right of birth, invested with citizenship.' He was a serf, owned by the state and assigned to service to free-born citizens; but, being attached to-the soil, he could not be sold. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.