From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fca456da8e6ec463 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-26 13:21:14 PST From: Florian Weimer Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Latin and other irrelevant topics Date: 26 Jan 2001 21:24:32 +0100 Organization: Enyo's not your organization Message-ID: <87k87i2ha7.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> References: <94p9fl$a1g$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <94qbb4$bs1$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <94rkj1$d4r$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!isdnet!news-fra.pop.de!schlund.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-ulm.de!news.belwue.de!LF.net!news.enyo.de!news1.enyo.de!not-for-mail Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4577 Date: 2001-01-26T21:24:32+01:00 List-Id: tom_swiftjr@my-deja.com writes: > > In England, from the age of 7-13 I spent 10 class hours a week > > learning Latin, and only 5 learning mathematics, when I > > was 10, I added 5 hours a week of Greek :-) That's the way > > things were done then. > Perhaps that's merely a reflection of the state of advancement of > mathematics when you were a lad? There's hardly any relationship between the advancement of mathematics and the math taught at school. Many important things have been discovered during the last few decades, but I doubt that (e.g.) the classification of finite simple groups is relevant for school teaching (even the trivial classification of finite simple abelian groups is way beyound what it is taught at schools, at least here in Germany).