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Articles From The Classical Teacher
Sayers
Omission 5
... As to the first point, I can only say that I do not blame
the modern methods of teaching Latin: I do not know what they are.
The trouble is that the allegedly literate and educated population
of this country is no longer composed of public school boys and parsons'
daughters, but a vast mass of young persons who have been turned loose
on the world at the age of sixteen, and very many of whom have learnt
no Latin at all. And that most of them, and of their parents,
and apparently of the persons who decide what educational fodder shall
be sponsored by the State, and quite certainly of those who provide
the popular literature and journalism which influences their thinking,
are under the impression that Latin is a bit of antiquated upper-class
trimming, of no practical value to anyone.
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