the west was actually dissolved when we started teaching the curriculum in the vernacular
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easy to imagine that Inquiry began in 1968 if you can't read the classic and medieval texts, I guess
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this is not a new or cannabis-engendered opinion, see this thread about the importance of professorial attirehttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/884963845826953216?s=19 …
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I think about this post a lot Learning to communicate in Latin may have had a second purpose, much like learning to work with data in R or python It's a signal of competence; and learning to do it well requires you to learn about many ideas on the way https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2013/01/05/the-statistics-software-signal/ …
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One reason STEM fields are perhaps doing relatively well is that they DO demand students learn a living, partially-universal scholarly language Now yes this language has technical value too but that isnt its sole virtue Make of that what you willhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1172585521849090049?s=19 …
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much bigger issue is that academia is orders of magnitude larger and, necessarily, fragmented into many subfields
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A good thing about not using Latin anymore is it lowers the barrier to entry for participation in intellectual life. I’ve read that Leonardo had a hard time learning about some things that interested him because he never learned Latin.
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I guess since you feel that Latin is a signal of competence, you might feel that this is a mixed blessing. But I think the good of lowering the barriers far outweighs the bad.
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Sometimes wonder if 20th century mathematics is becoming the new Latin. I've had many reasons for teaching myself more math but at the heart of it seems to be some need to maintain some standard of coherence. Like the need to debate in Latin maybe put a check on bullshit
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I think this is roughly correct Hmm Interesting A world built on Latin vs a world built on Math
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