The posting was almost starting to sound intelligent until I got to the point about wanting to foist Greek and Latin on kids. I mean, if I was a Greek kid and the only language being taught in school was Greek, I’d move.... There are enough LIVE languages available to study that it should be possible to get whatever side benefits you hope to get by studying live/real ones. You can get a good enough feel for IE grammer by studying Russian and at the end of the day you have something useful.
Wendy, if there were no collectivist schools you would provide the education **you** wanted for **your** kids. If other parents “foisted” Greek and Latin on their kids, why would you care?
In time we would soon see if “foisting” Latin or Greek ( freely chosen by the parents) was worthwhile or not. We would the evidence in the SAT, ACT, GRE, LSAT, and MCAT scores and college grade point averages.
In a free economy, we would **know**, definitively, within 10 years what educational methods were effective and which were not.
You certainly are entitled to your opinion, but your reference to “Greek kids” is confusing. You are aware that the article discusses Biblical and pre-Biblical Greek, aren’t you, and not Greek spoken today by “Greek kids”??? And forgive me if I am ignorant of what “IE” is, but Russian is a Sanskrit language using the Cyrillic alphabet, which bears very little relation to English. My dad, a chemist, was fluent in Russian because so much of the research he studied was Russian.