Education Stops Fall of Rome

Its not education which calls for the eventual collapse of the Roman Empire, Its the Military.

True, but if education doubles the literacy rate during the stable second century, the military and the empire in general will be more wise. You can move forward with miscellaneous technological innovations that were found much later in OTL.
 
it seems this topic is a bit old and derelict, yet it still caught my attention.

What if some simple advances are made in the close surrounds of rome? Such things that would simply allow the area we now call Itally or Greece to advance, something like finding a way to get more food from the same land.

Or let one important family try to gain more power by making sure their children are taught better and better, starting a small and simple school.

This idea then catches on with other groups, Christianity might be the best guess so literacy is greatly enhanced which then sparks simple technological developments
 
it seems this topic is a bit old and derelict, yet it still caught my attention.

What if some simple advances are made in the close surrounds of rome? Such things that would simply allow the area we now call Itally or Greece to advance, something like finding a way to get more food from the same land.

Or let one important family try to gain more power by making sure their children are taught better and better, starting a small and simple school.

This idea then catches on with other groups, Christianity might be the best guess so literacy is greatly enhanced which then sparks simple technological developments

It didn't really end up working like that. literacy was widespread, and education was a way of rising socially and accumulating cultural capital. People paid serious money for their children to receive a good education, and not just in rhetoric. What killed it wasn't that people didn't value education, it was that social developments rendered it largely irrelavant. The money to fund the things for which formal education was needed dried up, the military usefulness of a proper upbringing vanished, and the upper classes relied increasingly on buying rather than acquiring knowledge. Useful knowledge tended to become proprietary, too, though that had also been the case earlier.

If you want to change Rome, youcan't do it the welfare reform way. It's not that they didn't want to learn, it just didn't work for them. Make education pay dividends, and you'll see more of it.
 
The point of my OP was to foster education through communication. With crude printing, Romans can typeset plates that can press wax tablets much faster than a scribe can press a stylus, letter by letter.

With a POD of the early second century, you have two generations of relative stability forthcoming. Certainly the leaders and the military will recognize the benefit of being able to spread information faster.

Your traditional stone carvers and craftsmen preserved names and familiar proclamations in writing. A new profession of typesetters would handle an ever-changing influx of ideas written by a new, growing group of literate people.

The wealthy did accumulate knowledge for status. The not-so-wealthy, being closer to hands-on labor, might use knowledge to invent. By taking one small aspect of the Renaissance and transplanting it some 13 centuries earlier, the goal is to create that dividend for the support of education.
 
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