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To: driftdiver

‘And since the Church wouldn’t allow the common person to learn latin it made it a tad difficult.’

That is one of the nuttiest things I have ever heard. How was the Church able to prevent a literate parent from teaching their child how to read and write?


338 posted on 01/23/2011 6:42:41 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ('“Our own government has become our enemy' - Sheriff Paul Babeu)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Well if the Church didn’t allow people to learn latin how were the parents supposed to learn it so they could then teach their child?

hmmm?


351 posted on 01/23/2011 7:05:47 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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