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Cannon, Harold C. – 1975
Familiarization with the thoughts and creations of great minds, past and present, is a significant function of education. Many students, however, are effectively denied such opportunity for intellectual growth by the identification of education with job-training. Much of the curriculum neglects the past and the foreign. Humanists approach this…
Descriptors: Classical Languages, Classical Literature, Cultural Background, Educational Attitudes