[B-Greek] Greek for Laymen
Patrick Narkinsky
patrick at narkinsky.com
Tue Mar 9 11:05:59 EST 2004
On Mar 8, 2004, at 10:54 AM, Polycarp66 at aol.com wrote:
> When I entered college the expectation was that ALL pre-seminary
> students would be Greek majors. Then when I was in seminary we had
> yet more Greek...
In contrast, in my undergraduate career I never attended a college (and
I attended three for reasons to long to explain) that even offered
Greek. If it had been available, I would have taken it, but it was
simply never available. The problem, as I see it, is that the bulk of
seminary students today are in their thirties, and a large percentage
of undergraduate students are adults, not the traditional "18-22"
bracket. Schools that offer Greek simply aren't very friendly to adult
students.
This is probably a symptom of a larger problem, in that a traditional,
liberal arts education is simply unavailable at many colleges and
universities today.
Patrick
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