THE FUTURE OF CLASSICAL EDUCATION

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 151, 21 March 1919, Page 5

THE FUTURE OF CLASSICAL EDUCATION

UXjQUB LATIN AND

' T)r W H. D. .House, headmaster of the Perse School,' Cambridge, in an a;tj cl rf utlv ou'"ht to have in education may be stei ArtWrtS i -sides of man s nature and all develop all bite . wllo i e , and !V^ ou ht to bo done in. the first. Huit tiu> o . ~j. qf'ter wliieli more "Lveu to special aptitudes, End the boy's fut..ro oil of trainins! ought to use we hwo «SKlc3£s£b MftSSiSi"«f-, jlriSS'of n,i«™ of U.OS. Wh | B^Lto^T, e^mininrof l ! srwf'sas Ih <W men. All normal men of both & have some natural pleasure in !■ of various sorts. although not all to 1 same degree; this kind of pursuit is one fhnfc particularly combines hot perlv- totoed create. a j mistnke to ignore one. Now a. ai ; .o pari of the literary training consul • literatures of the world, Greek and &r£Srpss£,f . Tll , 0 f their masterpieces. lue\_ <on lain in them <i compendium of wisdom S autv of so moderate a Compaq S an intelligent man may survey (he whole. Their study makes a do* attention which is an .inv«luaU« preparation for all kinds of mtcUeetual worlc. These two peoples are mostncab ly ound up with the modern world, the Greeks lUin ß the source of out ideas and the Eomaiw of our politics « law Their works are impossible to s mlj in translations, because no great work of literature is capable of translation; ami their languages once learnt arc th k«, especially Latin, to a whole wnH of'sources which never have been transl A l.ed. Both have modern wnrewntobve* of importance, modern Greek being he language of the Levant, including larso populations in ,\s»» >'inor. Lnhn th" source of French, Italian, Spanish. and I'orluguese. so tb.it Hio»e can nil be more easily learnt by a, knowledge of Latin. T tWcl'>ro h-'d that Hi? nroner liar's <'f *' liler'"'v i< Ibe studv of flreek ami Lnlin. U-k stu.lv. hv a refi"'.n «f b ? d, can l.» Pirriiid out withoul sacrificing any of th" necessary elements of general eduction and pflor leaving *e.hi;ol- il im'V be discarded for Ibe sncriM study of n-.1-eru eru language 3. oi'ie'<l languages. lu°lorv, economics. poliMe«. law. or anything other than mathematics and natural science.

Gloom and Gladness.—A pessimist is a man who believes that it will talto centuries' for the world io recover from the blow to civilisation; and an optimist is a may jvho retorts that there will be plenty or centuries.