[HIDEK6]

I spoke with a Latin teacher once. Since I had six years of Latin, including Caesar (2d year), Cicero (3d year), Virgil (4th year), Livy and Ovid (5th and 6th years), all the while having the classes conducted in Latin from 3d year on, I wanted to visit one of her classes to observe and see just how much I remembered.

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.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

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.