Seneca's philosophical approach to the education of children

Seneca pays serious attention to the problems of education of children, because he regards it as an important, but difficult affair. He examines aims, methods, difficulties of upbringing and ways of overcoming them, as well as foundations of the mutual relations between parents and children. Seneca’s system of views in education is a synthesis of Roman traditional thoughts about models of behavior of father and son in the family and his own philosophical ideas about virtue and vice, love, anger, joy, tranquility, and beneficences.