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Fun facts, Grammar schools in the UK were originally schools created mainly to teach Latin grammar and currently there are 163 Grammar schools operating in the

Fun facts, Grammar schools in the UK were originally schools created mainly to teach Latin grammar and currently there are 163 Grammar schools operating in the UK as academic oriented (or orientated per UK English grammar), secondary schools [1],[2]. You know that the language is hard when you have multitude of schools dedicated to teach its grammar. Latin has a reputation of a complex language with complicated grammar, and the OP kind of demonstrating this perception. Interestingly, based on School Standards and Framework Act 1998, no new maintained grammar schools can be opened [3]. [1] Grammar school: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_school https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_school [2] List of grammar schools in England: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_grammar_schools_in_England https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_grammar_schools_in_Eng... [3] Grammar School Statistics: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn01398/ https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn01...

jltsiren 3y ago
Latin grammar is literally trivial, because it was a part of the trivium in traditional liberal arts education. You did not study the grammar in order to use the language but to understand the structure of it. You also studied logic to understand the structure of ideas and arguments, and rhetoric to communicate them. Then you proceeded to the quadrivium to study arithmetic, geometry, music theory, and astronomy.
- canjobear 3y ago
  Understanding Latin was absolutely the goal of grammar schools in the time when most written educated discourse happened in Latin.
  - jltsiren 3y ago
    It was, but that has nothing to do with name "grammar school". In the liberal arts tradition that goes back to the ancient Greece, you studied grammar, logic, and rhetoric to learn to think and argue properly. Those were considered prerequisites to learning anything real. Grammar was considered the most fundamental of the three, which is why it was taught in the lowest-level schools.

jltsiren 3y ago

Latin grammar is literally trivial, because it was a part of the trivium in traditional liberal arts education. You did not study the grammar in order to use the language but to understand the structure of it. You also studied logic to understand the structure of ideas and arguments, and rhetoric to communicate them. Then you proceeded to the quadrivium to study arithmetic, geometry, music theory, and astronomy.

canjobear 3y ago
Understanding Latin was absolutely the goal of grammar schools in the time when most written educated discourse happened in Latin.
- jltsiren 3y ago
  It was, but that has nothing to do with name "grammar school". In the liberal arts tradition that goes back to the ancient Greece, you studied grammar, logic, and rhetoric to learn to think and argue properly. Those were considered prerequisites to learning anything real. Grammar was considered the most fundamental of the three, which is why it was taught in the lowest-level schools.