Home Training. It is difficult to make a distinction between the education of children and their training for work. At an early age, children in the countryside accompanied their parents as they worked. Gradually children were assigned their own tasks in the household or fields. This work was essential to the well-being of the family, but at the same time it was part of the process by which children learned the skills they needed as adults. Similarly, the children of craftsmen learned their trade at their parents' knees, watching and then helping with simple tasks. Surviving images have shown quite small children helping to press wine, running alongside a plow, watching their mother as she feeds animals, and generally getting underfoot as they followed their parents at work. Such times gave parents opportunities to explain to their children what...