Rhetoric

Rhetoric

Rhetoric is a form of education I could compare to a debate, the people who practice that type of education believe that nothing is real, that is the most absurd statement ever, and how could nothing in existence not be real? These so called educators believe more about making the argument rather than proving the point, it’s all about show not substance. The practitioners of this form of education were called sophists; sophists were paid professional teachers in Greece classical education, that teach student orally, basically their job was to teach what we not call speech or public speaking to the children of politicians and other members’ government. As we can already tell the sophists were criticized by real scholars, such as Socrates and Plato, for not producing any real facts but only care about appearances, this did not hold well with these early scholars.
Rethors were good salesmen, because they had the power of words and were unable to back anything they said, they were like professional liars, they are able to talk about anything and make it sound like they had knowledge about the subjects. The powers of words are very overwhelming these orators were able to manipulate the good to seem bad and good can also be manipulated to seem bad, this was a very powerful weapon for politicians, one of Socrates’ accusers Lycon was an orator, which Socrates held in such low regards, because they sold their loyalty to the highest bidder, their motive were only monetary and not about making any real contributions to the educational society.
The Roman educational system was not too different from the rhetics because they are both sticking to the idea of truth was nonexistent, the roman only teach the basic reading and writing. The main difference between the two different styles is that one teaches on paper such as reading and writing which would be considered traditional style and the other uses grammar and does not use text to get their point across.