The Case for Latin in Secondary Schools

Excerpt from The Case for Latin in Secondary Schools

Language, and what is expressed in language, is, from a strictly practical point of view, the most important of all the subjects of education. Language is the vehicle of all thought, and the motive force towards all concerted action. Without it, we should be helpless; without an adequate mastery of it, we are almost powerless without appreciation of it, we are cut oif from the highest pleasures of the mind. Language is in the first place an art, and one which we all have to practise. It is in the second place an instrument, and one which we all have to use. It is in the third place a key, which opens to us the doors of all knowledge, and enables us to enter into the whole inheritance of our race.

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