Howard University’s Removal of Classics is a SPIRITUAL CATASTROPHE

The Washington Post ^ | Apr 19, 2021 | Cornel West & Jeremy Tate

[Red Badger]

This is intentional, like per a plan...................

[ClearCase_guy]

“Baby Got Back” is a classic. That’s good enough, right? Especially in the original Latin.

[Boogieman]

Amo, oh deus meus, Becky, vultus eo petat!

[ALPAPilot]

Cornel West wrote this? The Cornel West from Harvard? I am speechless1

[left that other site]

Amo Puella pulchra cum biggus Glutei Maximi.
Oh Oh Oh!
Ego quasi magnum canebat, et ego non mentitur!

[irishjuggler]

Est difficile ibi per lenoni.

[blueunicorn6]

It’s all in the teaching.

The teacher has to make the classics understandable and relevant to the student.

Too, often, the student is handed a book and told to read.

They don’t understand what is written and a small voice inside of them tells them that they must be ignorant.

This causes the student to begin to hate learning.

There is a whole delicious feast of learning and too many are robbed of this feast by poor teaching and a focus on training instead of education.

[BlackAdderess]

Grab good quality textbook editions now while they are available and relatively cheap. I know they are free on the internet but what the internet giveth the internet can take away one day.

[amihow]

It’s all in the teaching.
........
Indeed!
I had a friend of ourfamily who tutored in classics, gave me books as child. She re-read some every year in English, French Latin ,Greek. She was amazing.

Years later my 4 children had opportunity in high school to take humanities from a teacher like mine. 3 of them lapped it up. The 4th preferred math and became a lawyer. You can guess how they have all turned out.

[Chgogal]

Idiots teaching idiots.

[SunkenCiv]

[GreyFriar]

hey, hey, ho ho, Western Civilization’s got to go. That is their belief. And to live in a world of barbarism is their goal.

[Albion Wilde]

You know it’s bad when even lefty loon Cornel West says it’s bad.

[sauropod]

I like the SpongeBob version.

[allblues]

How is it possible that I find myself in agreement with Cornel West? Inconceivable!

[Jacquerie]

In the 1980s, Black groups and rats went nuts if states didn't memorialize MLK with a state holiday.

Today, MLK and Frederick Douglass are unpersons. No mention during Black History month of their remarkable writings and accomplishments.

Flexibility is an under-appreciated aspect of Leftist totalitarians.

My first principles begin with the Bible and trace down to our Framers.

There are no first principles to the Left other than seizing power by any means necessary.

[colorado tanker]

So, in it’s place are they starting a Cancellation Department?

[Albion Wilde]

I feel the same way...

[SunkenCiv]

• as ClearCase_guy said: Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back" translated into Latin [10/08/2003]