She told me that her students didn't actually speak, read or write the Latin language, rather they spent the class time absorbing Roman culture through movies and pictures.
I wonder what an "A" in that class really meant.
Like so many of us, who attended public schools up until around 1965, it came as quite a shock to learn that they didn’t teach like they used to and that you shouldn’t judge course content but the name of the subject.
Such a terrible waste; a flippant disregard for achievement and the criminal destruction of human potential.
A lot of GOOD teachers left the profession once it began to fill with graduates from schools of education run by Sixties radicals — when everything went to hell in a hand basket.