Exodus 2:10

10. The child grew… and he became her son This is all that Moses tells us of his own youth . How easily could he here have written lines which would have satisfied the curiosity of ages! but he hastens over years to touch the next link in the providential chain . The sacred writers ever show this baffling, unworldly reticence . Thus the youth of Moses’s great Antitype, Jesus, is almost a blank in history . In both instances apocryphal legends, beneath attention except as psychological curiosities, (witness Josephus and Philo,) have swarmed into the vacuum . There are, however, in the British Museum papyri of the eighteenth dynasty, (B . C . 1525-1325, according to Wilkinson,) which give something of an idea of the education of a youth designed for civil and military service in the Mosaic age . From these and other sources we learn that the education was in literature, philosophy, and the mystic lore of the Egyptian religion, rather than in science, although great attention was given to arithmetic, pure and applied geometry, mensuration, surveying, accounts, architecture, and astronomy . But especially were the children trained from infancy in grammar and rhetoric, and the drill in style was thorough enough to have satisfied Quintilian . Literary examination was indispensable for appointment to the lowest public office, and instructors were appointed and schools superintended by the government . Such was the training of Moses at Heliopolis, the Oxford of Egypt .

And she called his name Moses Rather, Mosheh, (from the Egyptian word mos, or mas, to draw,) using a word which was the root of several royal Egyptian names, as Teth- mos -is, A- mos -is, which was transcribed to Mosheh in Hebrew, and to Μω υσης by the LXX translators, (which means water-saved,) whence the Latin Moyses, and our Moses . Brugsch states that it is also the name of an Egyptian prince of the nineteenth dynasty, a viceroy of Nubia .