Sunday, August 03, 2008
A Classical Education
W.H. Auden, Doggerel by a Senior Citizen, lines 41-44:
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Dare any call PermissivenessCf. William Hazlitt, On the Ignorance of the Learned:
An educational success?
Saner those class-rooms which I sat in,
Compelled to study Greek and Latin.
Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
