classical learning — which encompassed Greek and Latin language and literature, philosophy, history, med... eed through gentle and encouraging instruction in Latin and Greek beginning around age seven, and advance... tional and political works in English rather than Latin — a choice that in the early 1530s was not merely... philosophical and political education beyond the Latin-literate elite. This project was complicated by t
to teach any language — including Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and German — in a dramatically shorter time than... on tongue, to learn academic subjects — including Latin, Greek, and Hebrew — through that reformed vernac... the learner's mother tongue — German rather than Latin — and that mastery of the vernacular should prece... e structure of humanist education, which regarded Latin as the indispensable medium of scholarship and wh
e among the most frequently quoted phrases in the Latin tradition, and both were formulated explicitly as... education from the sixteenth century onward made Latin verse composition in the Horatian mode a central ... instruction for audiences who had never opened a Latin text.
==== The Gentleman Poet: Formation of Char... in Horace its most seductive literary embodiment. Latin tags drawn from his poems — //carpe diem//, //aur
tutor ignorant of French but thoroughly versed in Latin, and all inhabitants of the household were instructed to speak only Latin in the child's presence: the result was that Montaigne learned Latin as his first language of literacy, "without art, ... d and wise," that had taught them to "decline the Latin word for virtue" but not "to love virtue." Self-k
(the fox) are both unworthy of a human being. The Latin phrase societas civilis — coined by Cicero — beca... y transmitted Stoic natural-law doctrine into the Latin West, shaping Roman jurisprudence in the second a... Cicero's letters and speeches and to imitate his Latin prose as a foundational intellectual discipline.
n should study law, and enrolled him first at the Latin school in Mansfeld, then at schools in Magdeburg ... ernacular literacy. He believed that the study of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew was essential to any serious e... otion. His reform of liturgical music — replacing Latin chant with vernacular congregational singing and
, Hegel's mother was well educated and taught him Latin from an early age; his love of reading was furthe... ge of seven, where he studied classical Greek and Latin literature, philosophy, and the New Testament in
rural life; as a teenager he attended the Aarhus Latin School, whose rigid, rote-driven pedagogy left a ... stitutions he had endured in Aarhus, conducted in Latin or German, inaccessible to ordinary people — and
