3: Latin Lives On

From the page: "In short, the epiphany that started out with the word transit has led me to a whole world of insight, insight into how education should and should not be conducted. I have been thinking obsessively about my own education, and the thing that strikes me over and over is how... more

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Rated by miketerrazas on Jul 29, 4:05pm

My Latin teachers disagree with this guy completely, they made sure we knew all the Latin words and roots in modern English--infact, for the nouns we had to know their declension and correct pluralization. My Greek teachers did too.
Rated by huggkruka on Jun 13, 2:05pm

This might be a good page and all but it's instantaneously headache-inducing.
Rated by axe85 on Jun 13, 11:46am

interesting
Reviewed by Jefflengyel on Jun 12, 7:52pm

The background makes me trip balls as I scroll.
Reviewed by gunzNrosez on Jun 12, 3:21pm

Great article, but as someone stated...the layout is disastrous. I'll just copy and paste the text into notepad to read later.
Rated by MGodby on Jun 09, 4:28pm

From the page: "In short, the epiphany that started out with the word transit has led me to a whole world of insight, insight into how education should and should not be conducted. I have been thinking obsessively about my own education, and the thing that strikes me over and over is how teachers and courses so often conspired to avoid mentioning the breathtakingly fascinating or the unforgettably immediate. Let me offer as Exhibit A the accompanying list of 333 common words that are letter-for-letter the same in Latin and English! "

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