when did i suggest "the masses" should learn latin? 
stop taking the pills, child - they're making you hallucinate.
Its the in the mix the same Tories you seem to have aligned yourself with seem to think should be part of an education
honestly hadron, you really do talk out of your arse. you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about - anyone who knows the slightest thing about me would be howling with mirth at that load of utter wank.
however...
learning latin and/or greek enables one to enter into a far more interesting relationship with language and words in general: if one can see the etymological connexions, it gives one a raft of transferable knowledge. as an example, teachers spend ages getting kids to understand that "kilo" means a thousand, thus enabling them to work out relationships between units of measurement, etc. it would also help with vocabulary, and thus reading, to equip people to be able to work out the meaning of words.
suffice it to say that i've taught etymology (insofar as latin and greek roots are concerned) to very young kids, and as i put it into a context they could "relate to" and enjoy (hence the "iPod" issue), they loved every minute of it. and i was never taught latin and greek, or classics - i learned that sort of thing by myself - although i wish i had been.
Maybe I should have rephrased my question slightly. If you put Latin in the timetable, how is it better than what has been taken out? Direct learning is a lot better than going the long way around, imo. I am sure you can guess what wankers come out of the Classics degree, along with the unemployable...
no, i can't. all the people i've met who read clasics are fine specimens of humanity.
as for putting anything in the timetable, "direct learning" is codswallop, and just leads to cramming kids' heads with useless facts. learning "indirectly", as i suppose i'll have to put it, is of far more value,
and (your point from a few posts above) relevant and interesting.
still, i don't expect you to listen to anything i've said, as you know everything already, and are right all the time (in your head).
i reiterate - i really pity you, as your narrowmindedness about everything is really preventing you accessing so much.
