the west was actually dissolved when we started teaching the curriculum in the vernacular
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i guess global english is the next best thing but were not teaching milton
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I mean this seriously Was listening to Durant last night at 3am while leveling a priest because insomnia and he covered the medieval history of translations and universities and language Incredibly impressive how really every scholar in Europe just communicated in Latin
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To hear him tell it, the educated in Europe were genuinely integrated in a period of massive cultural fragmentation The abandonment of a common (and arcane) scholarly tongue seems like a real loss for the learned And also cuts us off from our roots
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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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People find it easier to read the Bible in English than learn the mathematics required to understand Physics.
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