EVERY FRIDAY AFTERNOON in Moscow, Idaho, a strange commotion overruns Main Street. A stream of young men and women parade down the sidewalk, wearing black academic gowns that billow and flap as they walk. Some pore over Latin textbooks or thumb flashcards of ancient Greek vocabulary, nearly tripping at the curb. They are students at New St. Andrews College on their way to disputatio, a weekly assembly held in a movie theater downtown. The college itself has no room large enough to accommodate all 150 students at once: it occupies a single unassuming brick building a few blocks away, one that a stranger might mistake for the refurbished husk of an old savings and loan. Passers-by on their way to the Pita Pit or Hodgins Drug barely give the students a second glance. Not a few residents, however, have fought hard to keep them out of downtown. Founded in 1994 by the elders of a fast-growing and radically...
A very interesting experiment (quite apart from the Latin).
These students are getting a proper education. They are not wasting their time dissecting movies or rap songs for postmodernist and feminist lecturers.
They will graduate understanding where their cultural values come from.
Jim: Many theological institutions require or recommend Latin with good reason including conservative dispensational seminaries such as Tyndale in Fort Worth and others.
Interesting article, I think that a Bob Jones University would be better? This outfit in Idaho, I don't think has quite hit the mark. The study of classical languages should be Greek and Hebrew, Latin isn't necessary.
1
There are a total of 3 user comments displayed | add new comment |
COMMENTS | 
stever: "
john uk
feel better now? :shakehead:
observer put in a lot of effort..."
