Is it worth learning Latin?
EdReform, EduBusiness, In The News, Research, Secondary Education Sunday, December 5th, 2010
In Monty Pyhton’s Life of Brian a hapless Brian is caught graffitiing ‘Romans Go Home’ and subjected to an impromptu lesson in the finer points of Latin grammar by a burly centurion played by John Cleese: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbI-fDzUJXI[/youtube] Apart from being very funny, ‘Romans go Home’ very nicely illustrates what Latin meant to the grammar-educated Monty […]
