From info@caratzas.com Sun Mar 11 23:14:07 2001 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.02) with ESMTP id f2C7E6L28890 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 23:14:07 -0800 Received: from isis.hol.gr (isis.hol.gr [194.30.192.21]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with SMTP id XAA03846 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 23:14:04 -0800 Received: (qmail 8353 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2001 07:13:53 -0000 Received: from vdp106.ath04.cas.hol.gr (HELO caratzas.com) (195.97.119.107) by isis.hol.gr with SMTP; 12 Mar 2001 07:13:53 -0000 Message-ID: <3AAC780C.90EF0763@caratzas.com> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 09:17:33 +0200 From: "J. P. E. Philobiblos" Reply-To: info@caratzas.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-Accept-Language: el,en,de,fr,it,da,tr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: No foreign languages in Iowa! References: <000c01c0aa78$d97b2e60$b4cb64a8@jfgannon> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------8D815ECFC43BF1F26A1C2FBD" --------------8D815ECFC43BF1F26A1C2FBD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Writing in 1910 to support the teaching of Latin, Classicist Paul Shorey wrote: "After Greek, Latin, and after Latin, all literary, historical, and philological study of French and German. Convert your departments into Berlitz schools of languages. It is that which you are educating the public to demand, and that is all your students will be capable of" Quoted in Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms, By Diane Ravitch About a year ago my sister-in-law was fuming because her children's Catholic school had decided to contract out foreign language teaching (Spanish, the school no longer teaches Latin) to . . .Berlitz. I wonder if Mr. Shorey had visions too. "J.F. Gannon" wrote: > I read yesterday that Iowa has declared English to be its official > language and that Drake University, described as the largest private > university in Iowa, will do away with all foreign language study. I > do not know if these events are related. The president of Drake was > quoted as saying that he has no prejudice against the study of foreign > languages, since he himself has taught Russian, but that the way to > learn, say, French, was to go to France not to a school in Iowa. The > article did not mention how many languages were involved--there are > fifteen members of the faculty--but I wonder what the gentleman would > say to any one who wanted to study Latin or Greek. Perhaps he would > recommend a visit to some region of the the other world. J.F. Gannon --------------8D815ECFC43BF1F26A1C2FBD Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Writing in 1910 to support the teaching of Latin, Classicist Paul Shorey wrote:
"After Greek, Latin, and after Latin, all literary, historical, and philological study of French and German. Convert your departments into Berlitz schools of languages. It is that which you are educating the public to demand, and that is all your students will be capable of"
Quoted in Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms, By Diane Ravitch
About a year ago my sister-in-law was fuming because her children's Catholic school had decided to contract out foreign language teaching (Spanish, the school no longer teaches Latin) to . . .Berlitz. I wonder if Mr. Shorey had visions too.

"J.F. Gannon" wrote:

I read yesterday that Iowa has declared English to be its official language and that Drake University, described as the largest private university in Iowa, will do away with all foreign language study. I do not know if these events are related. The president of Drake was quoted as saying that he has no prejudice against the study of foreign languages, since he himself has taught Russian, but that the way to learn, say, French, was to go to France not to a school in Iowa. The article did not mention how many languages were involved--there are fifteen members of the faculty--but I wonder what the gentleman would say to any one who wanted to study Latin or Greek. Perhaps he would recommend a visit to some region of the the other world. J.F. Gannon

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