Reflection #16

Rhetoric discipline is to persuade someone through a speech or writing. According to the overview of rhetoric discipline, Plato reveals to us that through rhetoric we can persuade someone away from the truth. According to Aristotle, there are three methods that follow behind or are proofs of a rhetoric speech or writing and they are logos which is logic's, pathos which is emotions and ethos which is the characteristics of the speaker. According to the article for a period of time in Greece, the teachings and studies of rhetoric's had not been used. To me I find this hard to believe that rhetoric's could stop being used in the USA. The reason why I believe this is because our life is built around being persuasive until it almost feels innate to be rhetoric about life itself. For example, when we are seeking a job it is our job to create a portfolio to persuade our potential employers that we are well fit for a certain position. There are even certain careers and fields in which being persuasive is much important to as much as keeping the job. For example lawyers, Lawyers use rhetoric discipline in order to persuade a jury that the suspect is either innocent or guilty, even if it means driving the jury away from the truth by means of defending their client. I believe Rhetoric discipline and it's relationship in Ancient Roman education has a lot to do with the fact that around the time of 735 BC because of the rudimentary form of education parents were educating their own children. During this time the lessons that were being taught by parents basically in order to survive, the children needed to learn how to grow their own crops, fight for their land or country, and be good citizens to their land and country. Could it be that because the parents educated their children so they too were also educated by their parents. Therefore what was taught was based on a form of tradition passed down from generations before. So these matters of survival may as well been important but not the most important when it came to educating a child. If we were to categorize this depiction of how rhetoric correlates with the Roman education we would see that it was logic for the parents to teach their children that they needed to learn how to grow their own food to eat, and how to protect themselves and their land. It was emotional for the educating to be done by the parents of the children, the most valuable person to a child's belief. Last it was a very persuasive characteristic because if the children did not obey or retain the information they would be disciplined physically, even worst by their own parents.