I’m grateful my father made me study Latin – long may the classical languages continue - The Catholic Leader

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I’m grateful my father made me study Latin – long may the classical languages continue - The Catholic Leader

By Jo Hayes A SWELTERING summer afternoon in Brisbane, in the late 1990s. School has finished for the day. The school grounds are unusually silent. And I am sitting in a stifling hot classroom, sorting out my Latin declensions. I wasn’t being punished – although it did feel like it at the time. I had […] The post I’m grateful my father made me study Latin – long may the classical languages continue appeared first on The Catholic Leader.