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It's not a direct analogy - it's a commentary on the expectations of students. Learning Latin was a fundamental part of a science or medical education, Greek w
by EncomLab 2y ago
It's not a direct analogy - it's a commentary on the expectations of students. Learning Latin was a fundamental part of a science or medical education, Greek was a fundamental part of what we would call a humanities education - they were the keys to communicating across boundaries in an era when English had not yet become the "global language". If anything this makes the fact that there are entire school districts in the US wherein not a single student can read to grade level even more troubling - how can someone possibly succeed at anything other than being a TikTok star without the ability clearly communicate?
- watwut 2y agoGreek is not useful to anything today. Also, you are comparing expectations on top students in one case and expectations on overall population including the lowest ranking students. Likewise, reading at "grade level" is fairly high standard that massive amount of Kentucky 1912 kids would not clear ... because no one taught them to our current grade level standard. Americans colleges teach biology, physics, chemistry to a pretty high level. Entrance to the top universities is also massively more competitive then it used to be.