# Endnotes explained — Some Thoughts Concerning Education

> Chapter companion for Some Thoughts Concerning Education by John Locke.

## What happens

This chapter provides a single endnote referencing Roman and Greek historical sources that emphasize the role of parents in the education of their children, citing Suetonius, Plutarch, and Diodorus Siculus.

## Themes in this chapter

### Parental Responsibility and Authority

The endnote underscores the historical view that education was a parental duty, as seen in Roman and Greek sources.

## Character check-ins

### Children

Referenced as the subjects of parental education in Roman and Greek tradition.

### The Greeks

Mentioned via Diodorus Siculus as part of historical educational practices.

## Key lines

> How much the Romans thought the education of their children a business that properly belonged to the parents themselves, see in Suetonius, August. §64. Plutarch in Vita Catonis Censoris , Diodorus Siculus, l. 2, cap. 3.

The Romans considered the education of their children to be a matter for the parents, as shown in Suetonius' 'Augustus' §64, Plutarch's 'Life of Cato the Censor', and Diodorus Siculus' 'Library of History' Book 2, Chapter 3.

_This endnote directs readers to classical sources that affirm the parental role in education._

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