[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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