[B-Greek] Greek Pedagogy through the Centuries
Hugh Donohoe Jr.
justusjcmylord at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 7 23:38:14 EST 2008
List members,
I had always wanted to read a history of Greek
instruction which covered the Renaissance to the
present. Six months ago I read a book which did the
following for Latin. The book was Francoise Waquet's
Latin: Or the Empire of a Sign. Their are many
parallels between Latin and Greek education
historically speaking. Latin of course took a more
prominent place in the West's curriculum. But the
conclusions of the book apply even more to Greek. It
looks at how ineffective Latin pedagogy has been
historically. The book is also a social history of
Latin (and Greek to a degree) and looks at Latin's
cultural prestige in the last four centuries. If
anyone does know of a work in this vein written
specifically about Greek, please relay the
information.
Here is an Amazon link for the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Latin-Empire-Sign-Sixteenth-Twentieth/dp/1859844022/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204950225&sr=1-1
ex animo
Hugh Donohoe
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