Download or read book The Case for Latin in Secondary Schools (Classic Reprint) written by J. W. Mackail and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Case for Latin in Secondary Schools This pamphlet is meant to set out, briefly and simply, for the use not merely of those engaged in organising, carrying on, and improving the work of national education, but of ordinary people, and particularly of parents, the case for Latin in Secondary Schools; that is to say, in schools which, as defined by the Board of Education] offer a course of general education suitable for pupils of an age-range extending from 12 to 17 at least. Three points should first be stated, and must be borne in mind in order to make the scope of what follows clear: I. What is dealt with here is the case for Latin. The case for Greek is a different thing, and is not dealt with here: it would only confuse the issue. For the same reason, the substitution of Greek for Latin as a subject in the Secondary School course, an experiment which has been advocated in some quarters, and has here and there been tried, is not discussed. "The classics" in the ordinary use of the term mean Latin and Greek, and therefore that term will not be used at all except where it occurs in quotations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.