Not very long ago, as time is reckoned, one needed to read Greek and Latin to be considered educated. One was expected to be familiar with certain cultural idio

Not very long ago, as time is reckoned, one needed to read Greek and Latin to be considered educated. One was expected to be familiar with certain cultural idioms of Western Civilization relearned from antiquity during the Renaissance. The classical ideas of virtue, rhetoric, politics, mathematics, and natural philosophy still hold value. To ignore this tradition and relegate it to a "statistically insignificant minority" is, I believe, a mistake.