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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3596696, member: 19463"]Neither do I. I took Latin in high school and credit the vocabulary boost to upping my SAT score to the point I got a great scholarship in college saving me a lot of money. I don't know if that would work today since the tests are different. I have volunteered with a couple high school Latin teachers who hardly taught the language at all but went heavy on culture and things that could help a student with English and other languages. I also took Russian which was different enough that it pointed out how languages work. In those days, almost no one taught Chinese or Japanese in high school. Today I feel lucky to be semi-literate in English and am useless in Greek, Latin and Russian but I still support a balanced education including things other than STEM. The biggest gain in education is learning how to learn. I pity those who thought they were set for life based on their mastery of Windows 98.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3596696, member: 19463"]Neither do I. I took Latin in high school and credit the vocabulary boost to upping my SAT score to the point I got a great scholarship in college saving me a lot of money. I don't know if that would work today since the tests are different. I have volunteered with a couple high school Latin teachers who hardly taught the language at all but went heavy on culture and things that could help a student with English and other languages. I also took Russian which was different enough that it pointed out how languages work. In those days, almost no one taught Chinese or Japanese in high school. Today I feel lucky to be semi-literate in English and am useless in Greek, Latin and Russian but I still support a balanced education including things other than STEM. The biggest gain in education is learning how to learn. I pity those who thought they were set for life based on their mastery of Windows 98.[/QUOTE]
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