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rbanffy on July 31, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life

Latin was much more important a hundred years ago than it is today. Also, a college education was not a given back then.

OTOH, I can imagine the HS-level Physics books were very different from the ones we studied with, with different subjects given different depths.

ryanmarsh on July 31, 2020 [–]

Latin is a good subject to learn as the foundation of many modern languages, and subsequently other subjects such as logic and philosophy.

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