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Education: who wants ancient languages ​​to die?

2021-12-14T19:22:34.846Z


DECRYPTION - Despite strong demand, the learning of Latin and Greek is stagnating in middle and high schools.


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The study of Latin and ancient Greek is an essential complement to the training of our students to make them aware, reasoned and cultivated citizens

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100 days before the presidential election, the association promoting the languages ​​and cultures of Antiquity “Arrête ton char!”

calls on candidates on the future of language teaching in France, after 2022.

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In this strange campaign, we do not hear much talk about education, and even less Latin and Greek

", explains its president, Robert Delord, professor of classical letters in a college in Drôme.

Yet mastery of the basics of Latin makes it possible to establish mastery of the French language.

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Target of "woke" attacks

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I am convinced that we must both offer the learning of ancient languages ​​to more students and strengthen the links between this teaching and other disciplines,

" said the Minister of Education again recently.

After signing a declaration with his Greek, Italian and Cypriot counterparts for…

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Source: lefigaro

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