On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 4:39 PM, emptybill <emptyb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Lucky you. Do you remember any of it? > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall <thomas.pall@...> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 2:42 PM, emptybill emptybill@... wrote: > > > > > In the earlier days of the USA, college students in humanities were > > > required to learn Latin and/or Greek if they hadn't already learned > one > > > or both in high school (particularly Catholic schools). > > > > > > Of course we no longer teach such "irrelevant" stuff, except to > > > classics majors. > > > > > > > > I had a very special HS education. 4 years of Latin, 4 years of > Greek, 1 > > year of German (German 4), plus of course all of the AP courses. I > feel so > > very lonely in tech work, especially since it's so dominated by > Indians. I > > receive the most ambiguous memos. I sent an email to a member of > > management that I could not attend a meeting announced on Wednesday to > be > > held on Friday. The response I got back was that he'd try to > reschedule > > it for tom. Now did he mean reschedule it just for me or reschedule > it > > for Thursday? > > > > > Yes, I remember of a lot of my declensions and conjugations. I can still recite major works. We had to read and critique a major piece of literature (in English) every week. A pity I was so young and immature to appreciate the works. I pick up a classic now, say *Moby Dick*, and I'm enthralled by the richness, the biblical references, the symbolism. But now I have the time to savor a piece. In HS had to race thru to get on to everything else. I still remember my Calculus I-IV I took in college and still love Thermo and Physical Chemistry but I swear to tell you that both heat and cold flow. Put your hand up against a window pane during a FF winter and you can verify that cold flows :D. All that and the most math I've ever used afterwards was solving for a or b in an equation y=ax+b.
