Quintilian lived in the Roman Empire in the first century. Some important things to know about Quintilian and education:

• He divided up education into developmental stages.
• He believed in balanced bilingualism and rejected the idea that two languages should have to interfere with each other.
•  He was one of the first in the western tradition to write about how to motivate students.
• He wrote an amazing series of books called, Institutio Oratoria which is available on line.