I'm in awe right now, but I need some advice. For several years, I've been seeking the book that Beau Brummell used to learn Latin. I know it was Introduction to the Latin Tongue for the use of Youth. There were many different editions, including The famous, but later, Eton Latin Grammar. He attended Eton from 1786 to 1794. I have a digital copy of one published in 1795, wich fits the timeframe perfectly, but it's a mess when trying to read the "full text" with NVDA (my screen reader) or to convert the pdf to text. Likewise, I have one from about 1824-5 that is a reprint of 1795, and though it's a bit clearer, it's still full of errors. The hard copy reprints I've found are all pictures of the originals, not cleanly retyped. Just now, I found an original 1824 edition, and it's in clean condition! I'm quite afraid, because I am totally blind, and in order to read it, I must hold it and turn the pages so that my software can scan it! I can either use my ArX Vision, which I wear on my head, or my Pearl Document Scanning Camera with Openbook. Either way, I would be touching a book that's 200 years old! However, no one seems to have a modern copy that is retyped. All are just pictures of old editions, and when I try to convert the pdfs to txt, or to read the pre-made html versions (all at the Internet Archive), they are full of errors! This would be fine in English, but I'm using the book to learn Latin!

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As a side note, here is my post in which I explain my search for a Latin tutor. I have not yet found one. If you think you can help me, please read said post before simply writing that you are a tutor. I am not using modern methods or pronunciation.

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Finally, this is the syllabus for the pre-1868 Eton College curriculum that I created after a lot of research. It includes links to the books I plan to use, as well as extras.

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#BeauBrummell #books #Brummell #classicaleducation #education #Eton #EtonCollege #Language #Latin #Learning #nineteenthcentury #syllabus #TraditionalEnglishPronunciation #teacher #tutor

Someone had the ambition to read Winnie the Pooh in Latin.

That person isn't me.

#books #bookstodon #winniethepooh #aamilne #Latin #classicaleducation #humor

Christless Classical Curricula https://buff.ly/49pDbg3 #Christianity #ClassicalEducation #teaching #secularism

Should #classicalEducation appeal to politically #conservative people who are paranoid about #wokeism?

Does “#Western” thought heroize only White, male #Christians?

This longish piece in the #NewYorker sketches the history of #classical #ducation, its #progressive proponents (like #JohnDewey), its recent proponents on the right (like #RonDesantis), and more.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/18/have-the-liberal-arts-gone-conservative

#edu #history #philosophy #logic #religion #politics #USA

Which of these '#Compliance #Classics' would you read first? 📚✨💻

📖 20,000 Leagues Under the Data Center, by Jules Verne
📖 To Kill a Data Center, by Harper Lee
📖 Moby Data Center, by Herman Melville
📖 War and Compliance, by Leo Tolstoy
📖 The Importance of Being Compliant, by Oscar Wilde
📖 The Call of the Data Center, by Jack London
📖 The Lord of the Data Center, by J.R.R. Tolkien
📖 Alice's Adventures in the Data Center, by Lewis Carroll
📖 Data Center Expectations, by Charles Dickens
📖 The Data Center in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger

Any others you would add to the list? With generative #AI, we can start a literary revolution with these ideas!

#DataCenter #DataCenters #ClassicLiterature #ClassicalEducation

"Ordinary pastors, however, must be able to use Latin. They cannot do without it any more than scholars can do without Greek and Hebrew." - Martin Luther, 'Sermon on Keeping Children in School' (Am. ed. v.46, p. 233)

#Latin #ClassicalEducation

David and the Classical Education - Ah, poor David and his overly large-sized hands! https://grumpyoldteacher.com/2023/03/26/david-and-the-classical-education/ via @sampsongregory #ClassicalEducation #WhiteSupremacy

A broader look at Classical Education given the controversy over the David scuplture. #Education #Art #ClassicalEducation
http://grumpyoldteacher.com/2023/03/26/david-and-the-classical-education/

This is ludicrous and hilarious, but it is dangerous to dismiss this bullshit out of hand. This is what elementary and secondary education is.

An Interview With the School Board Chair Who Forced Out a Principal After Michelangelo’s David Was Shown in Class

https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/03/florida-principal-fired-michelangelo-david-statue.html

#Education #Pornography #StatueOfDavid #ClassicalEducation #PureUncutUnadulteratedBullshit

RT Gary Nuschler, Jr. ✝️Economics curriculum for #ClassicalEducation, #Homeschooling➡️IntroEcon Primer👇-@PerBylund➡️Follow-UpEconomics In One Lesson-H. Hazlitt➡️TextbookLessons For The Young Economist-@BobMurphyEcon➡️ClassicsCapitalism & Freedom-M. FriedmanThe Road To Serfdom-F. Hayek
from: https://twitter.com/GaryNuschler/status/1562809522569170946

I have often wondered about the same:

"The Myth Of The Classically Educated Elite", Los Angeles Review Of Books (https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-myth-of-the-classically-educated-elite/).

#Books #Reading #Education #ClassicalEducation #Classics #Greek #Latin #Canon #WesternCanon #Elite #Jews #WASP #USA #England

A better future for our and our children's education is possible, one based on the arts, personal instruction, wild nature, physicality, the classics and above all freedom.

Read more at my blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2020/09/05/art-nature-and-freedom-toward-a-better-future-for-education/

This post's featured image is "The Nut Gatherers" by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1882).

#art #opera #dance #artseducation #outdooreducation #education #children #unschooling #naturaleducation #classicaleducation #blog