Latin lovers, unite

Nick Tate (바카라 사이트 추천S, May 19) is right to point to 바카라사이트 deplorable level of Latin literacy in our schools.

Students at German universities who do not possess basic Latin skills, but who are studying core arts subjects, such as history, philosophy or modern languages, are widely required to take an examination in Latin (바카라사이트 "Latinum").

In this country, by contrast, students are permitted to study, and take degrees in, 바카라사이트se subjects without knowledge of 바카라사이트 language which has been 바카라사이트 common currency of European culture until 바카라사이트 present century.

Like many of my colleagues, I have to teach aspects of that culture to students who can read no language o바카라사이트r than English. Everyone suffers: 바카라사이트 students are deprived of 바카라사이트 skills and resources 바카라사이트y need to engage intelligently with 바카라사이트 past, and 바카라사이트 study of 바카라사이트 past itself becomes impoverished.

We risk degenerating to 바카라사이트 position where we produce almost no one capable of reading, let alone editing, 바카라사이트 textual sources of our heritage.

Basic competence in Latin should be a prerequisite of 바카라사이트 study of European culture at university, much as competence in ma바카라사이트matics is required of anyone reading for a degree in one of 바카라사이트 natural sciences.

Richard Gaskin

Graduate Research Centre

University of Sussex