tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4527343833432500501.post2133629543794568619..comments2024-01-24T01:38:12.514-08:00Comments on Talking to Strangers: An Introvert Hits the Streets: Construal--Part Two--The Other Dead LanguageJo Ann Heydronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14294787038183758856noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4527343833432500501.post-27783332406717787292013-08-25T05:05:44.809-07:002013-08-25T05:05:44.809-07:00Like your sister, I took Latin at the tail end of ...Like your sister, I took Latin at the tail end of the era. My senior year was the last it would be taught in my public high school, and it had been offered only because it was the department Chair's pet subject. He retired the year I graduated. I regret that I didn't take Latin that last year—too much of Caesar's Gallic Wars—I should have stayed on for Cicero. Hindsight...<br /><br />Now, in addition to a general erosion of our public schools as they turned from an educational system into a marketplace, we are seeing a deliberate destruction of all the Humanities, as if math and science (and the MBA) were the only disciplines necessary to a full and useful life. The President of Duke University, Richard Brodhead, has written about the findings of a broadly based panel, and I enjoy what he has to say about the need for the Humanities on the Colbert Report: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/428644/august-15-2013/richard-brodhead<br /><br />Thank you for this post.Jan Priddy, Oregonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06107172381368544145noreply@blogger.com