The University Library And the University Curriculum; Phi Beta Kappa Address, North-Western University, June 13,1893
The University Library And the University Curriculum; Phi Beta Kappa Address, North-Western University, June 13,1893
William Frederick Poole
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. . The " less the mastery of the subject on the " part of the teacher, the greater seems to "be the desire to make the treatment " 'scientific', and so, — in the plastic age of " study, the golden opportunity of appro- " priating the peculiar value of the classic " languages, is thrown away." It is apparent that the cause of the whole deficiency in modern classical education arises from the fact that the teachers in preparatory schools and col- leges have so little practical knowledge of Greek... and Latin as languages. Language is "human speech, the expression of " ideas by the voice.** It is not grammar, rules of syntax, nor philology — it is some- thing spoken. The teachers who fit our boys for the Universities are unable to speak these languages, or, with any facil- ity or accuracy, give expression to their find University Curriculum 39 thoughts in writing ; and hence they are incompetent to teach Greek and Latin. The remedy is to find teachers who know the ancient languages as modern teachers know French and German.
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