The book presents translations of fragments of the works, speeches and letters of the ancient Roman orator, philosopher and politician Marcus Tullius Cicero. His original ideas about the ways and means of educating his compatriots had a significant influence on the development of the Western pedagogical tradition. The book includes an extensive pedagogical commentary that explains the terms and introduces the content of selected fragments into the context of Cicero’s philosophical and pedagogical constructions. The commentary is divided into introductory and concluding articles, as well as page-by-page footnotes and articles that precede each section and briefly characterize the compositional structure of Cicero's texts. The work of the compilers on this book was supported by a grant from the Russian Humanitarian Research Foundation 16-06-00004a. The publication was carried out with the financial support of the V. Potanin Foundation. The book will be useful to researchers, teachers, doctoral students, graduate students and undergraduates in areas of pedagogical training, as well as to everyone interested in the emergence of the humanistic tradition in pedagogy.