Note 18 — Chapter I · EDUCATION IN ANTIQUITY.

This statement needs qualifying. “In nearly all the families of high rank,” says the Dictionnaire de Pédagogie (1ere Partie, Article Juifs), “the daughters spoke Greek. The Rabbins did not look with any favor upon the study of profane philosophy; but notwithstanding their protests, there were many devoted readers of Plato and Aristotle. It is said that among the pupils of the celebrated Gamaliel there were five hundred who studied the philosophy and the literature of Greece.” (P.)