Latin is and most likely already was in the XIXth century a tool to discriminate people, which is one of the role of education (even more so in the XIXth centur

Latin is and most likely already was in the XIXth century a tool to discriminate people, which is one of the role of education (even more so in the XIXth century maybe ?). There are at least two ways to look at education from a purely economical POV: signal theory (I take someone from Harvard because he was able to go to Harvard) vs human capital theory (I take someone from Harvard because of the things he learned at Harvard). Of course, there are still many more aspects to it: I take someone at Harvard because he met people at Harvard... and I am myself coming from Harvard, etc... More simply, I am glad most of what I have learned was "useless" in some sense. What's useful or not changes in times, you cannot necessarily know what's useful to you when you're 15, and you could argue that one of the role of education is to teach you things you will never see otherwise (to expand your horizon).