Training Children. Starting from the age of ten, boys and girls were expected to take different paths in life. A boy usually was sent to a master/tutor's house to learn classical literature as well as proper manners. At thirteen he was instructed in music, in how to recite the classics, and in carrying out the gentleman's rites. At the same time he was taught archery and chariot driving. At twenty he was "capped" in order to be permitted to attend to various filial and fraternal duties and to assume social responsibility as an adult. At the age of ten a girl was forbidden to leave the home; for a girl of a well-todo family, her mother or father sometimes hired a governess to teach her woman's work. She was instructed in the arts of gentle speech and obedience...