I'm not sure I see under what system classics - or any field of academic work - wouldn't have to make its case to *someone.* We don't farm our own food, we don't build our own buildings. We're going to need, at some point, to exchange our classics for someone else's bread.
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So here is the issue - you have a system with limited resources, but people have unlimited wants. Who gets what? Who produces it? How is it delivered? And which wants don't get filled, because again - there are always more wants than resources to fill them.
And if no job is more valuable than another, what exactly is going to induce someone to do sewage-system repair over any number of more pleasant occupations? These seem to me like problems that cannot be wished away.
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I'm not sure you've read, or perhaps you've misunderstood my argument. It is that if we think that learning Latin (to make it a bit simpler) has value for everyone, comparable to the arts let's say, then we should not concede that it is merely a want -a commodity- by outsourcing
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...or relegating, or surrendering it to the marketplace. We should instead insist that it have a place in as many high schools as possible, & this should be a major focus of public facing work of classicists. This is preferable to even more YT videos, podcasts, infographics bc
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