Posted on 06/23/2010 6:27:30 AM PDT by shortstop
Attic, I suppose, is the language of the tragedies and comedies? I’m sure we’ll get to that eventually, when Pat’s older.
I’ll have to go read up on Plato’s life, now!
Koine has interesting (and helpful) parallels with Spanish.
Plato's life was particularly interesting, especially when you read his epitaph of his friend Dion and consider the parallels between Socrates' interesting turn-about on Eros, among other things.
My son, the Classics Scholar (my nickname for him), says Xenophon was the Chuck Norris of the ancient world.
His “Middle Liddel” is one of his prized possessions.
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Middle Liddel! That’s the one I have.
I haven’t read Xenophon, yet, but I will eventually. My next project is a book or two of the New Testament to keep myself sharp while away from class.
My son read the Anabasis this year in Greek. Latin was mostly devoted to Virgil this year (as he is the primary topic of the AP Latin - Virgil exam - my son anxiously awaits his grade on that).
I read your profile. Do you go to NYU or to another university in New York? I noted that you'll be in London this summer with NYU (that is, if your profile page is up to date, :-) ).
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Why not? We allow the government to finance edumacshun, and then fight the tide of people who've been taught in those very schools that more government is always the answer to any situation. What did we think was going to happen? He who has the gold makes the rules.
I am familiar with the Anabasis, though I haven’t yet read it. Last semester was our first to actually translate a real text (the first two semesters being devoted completely to grammar), so we translated the first book of one of the first original Greek novels, Callirhoe. I did have to read the Aeneid for a different class (in English), and it really shows the Romans’ inferiority complex!
I go to a university on Long Island, and I’ll be in London in the fall with NYU.
Good luck to your son! I am quite familiar with all of the AP tests, having taken a few in my time.
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Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister (1874)
You bet your sweet arse I want to abolish it.
Totally.
Completely.
Homeless and uneducated for everyone, as unrealistic and extreme as that would be, is preferable to the behemoth monster we have created in the government schools.
That's one reason public schools are spending $12K per head or more right now - all those levels of funding with extra spiffs for this & that, and unions taking all the available advantages because local control and oversight goes when the so-called "outside" money comes.
I have a relative who is chairman of a school board in Virginia and he cries about all the federal mandates. I told him grow a pair and tell the feds to buzz off - but be prepared to do without the dough. It should really be easy since most of what public schools teach is crap anyway.
Xenophon’s Anabasis is a rip-roaring tale, even in his “I have to write this report” prose. It reminds me of Classical Spanish literature, in some ways - the story makes the writing, not the other way around.
We have it in English. Anoreth bought her own in Seattle, after I wouldn’t surrender mine. Pat (8) and James (6) have both spent some time with it. I’m not sure what James got out of it. He might have assumed it had dinosaurs in it, since the title is Greek!
True. But the key is to drop all the “social” stuff that was injected into the curriculum by the Progressives and just go for the 3-R’s and classics. School could be shortened without all this socialization (brainwashing) stuff.... It is imperative to get rid of the texts that have been so perverted and injected with bias towards Marx, Darwin, Freud, Hegel, Rousseau, Skinner, Max Weber, etc. etc. etc.
Those guys rot the brain....they can be studied but they have to be denounced for the flaws in their logic.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
Borrowed a bunch too, and lost that.
Making stupid statements like that in the article is an example of poor education... and laziness.
I’ll bet that person heard “Abolish the Federal Department of Educaton” and without thinking for a second, translated that into “Abolish public education”.
Education is just one of several roles that are appropriate for local government, but not for federal government.
Another example is law enforcement. Catching illegals who rape, drive DUI, etc and then deporting them must logically be done by local law enforcement and not the Feds. It is absurd to think the FBI/ATF/ICE is going to watch for DUI drivers and then identify the ones who should be deported.
So abolishing Federal programs does not necessarily mean abolishing the same programs at other levels.
Besides a Liddel-Scott, two other texts:
1. Smithe
2. Tota Verba Graecii - all forms of your Greek verbs, broken down and you are given the 1st ppart. Makes translating Thucydides much simpler.
I will stick with Latin.:)
“Because the four Lonsberry children turned out conservative despite public education, he concludes that the educrats are not doing a good job of brainwashing. *groan*”
Looks like he could use a course in logic.
“If you can do all of that, are you wise enough to expose your children to ideas that you do not yourself hold?”
What do you mean by this exactly? It is the job of a wise parent to pass the parent’s values to the child.
Dueteronomy 11:18-21
Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates, so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land that the LORD swore to give your forefathers, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.
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