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I understand you see value in it. But that may differ. I know I would have hated being forced to read the bible as a child. Even though I was baptized I very qu

I understand you see value in it. But that may differ. I know I would have hated being forced to read the bible as a child. Even though I was baptized I very quickly became a student of science and I rejected religion as soon as I could talk. I was very opinionated in my school days. Luckily nobody tried to teach it to me or it would have been war >:] In fact my school tried to put me in the optional Latin class because I was a really good student and "important people know Latin" and I made myself completely impossible there because I didn't see the point in learning a dead language. I look to the future not the past. That didn't last long and after that I was a teacher's pet again, they just had to learn their lesson that no means no. Heheh Ps they were right in the end and Latin would have been handy because now I struggle with Latin based languages. But oh well. Standing up for what you think is right is important and I would do it again :)

aurizon 2y ago
LOL, reminds me of Latin in school (UK 1940's) Latin, a dead language, Lying in the dust, First it killed the Romans, Now it's killing us!
quantified 2y ago
I had a relative who excelled in Latin in high school and then found it a huge benefit in the natural sciences later, so much of the terminology originated in Latin. The same is likely true in the field of law as well.
- wkat4242 2y ago
  True though I'm in tech fields and I've always known I wanted to end up there. In work I wouldn't have had any benefit from it, but I have had more exposure to Latin languages than expected :)
squircle 2y ago
> I understand you see value in it. But that may differ. I know I would have hated being forced to read the bible as a child. Even though I was baptized I very quickly became a student of science and I rejected religion as soon as I could talk. Likewise. I wasnt forced to read anything but had an appetite for any/all reading materials (particularly speculative fiction and dense academic texts for whatever reason.) Books were always better than the garbage on basic cable. Also, note, having read so many texts in the western and eastern canons, there are uncanny parallels perhaps pointing to fundamental aspects of our shared humanity. It's important to understand many perspectives I think, lest your individual identity becomes one of this or that.

aurizon 2y ago

LOL, reminds me of Latin in school (UK 1940's) Latin, a dead language, Lying in the dust, First it killed the Romans, Now it's killing us!

quantified 2y ago

I had a relative who excelled in Latin in high school and then found it a huge benefit in the natural sciences later, so much of the terminology originated in Latin. The same is likely true in the field of law as well.

wkat4242 2y ago
True though I'm in tech fields and I've always known I wanted to end up there. In work I wouldn't have had any benefit from it, but I have had more exposure to Latin languages than expected :)

squircle 2y ago

> I understand you see value in it. But that may differ. I know I would have hated being forced to read the bible as a child. Even though I was baptized I very quickly became a student of science and I rejected religion as soon as I could talk. Likewise. I wasnt forced to read anything but had an appetite for any/all reading materials (particularly speculative fiction and dense academic texts for whatever reason.) Books were always better than the garbage on basic cable. Also, note, having read so many texts in the western and eastern canons, there are uncanny parallels perhaps pointing to fundamental aspects of our shared humanity. It's important to understand many perspectives I think, lest your individual identity becomes one of this or that.