[B-Greek] Comenius and Greek/Latin Pedagogy

Randall Buth randallbuth at gmail.com
Mon Aug 31 07:55:16 EDT 2009


Thank you for this, Louis.

I find the following comment especially helpful for re-setting the bar:

"Comenius thought a student should not open any works of original Latin
literature, until fluency had been developed. He estimated this would take
three years, if conducted FULL TIME in a school only following his
curriculum.  Part time, you are looking at six - ten years to attain the level
of fluency that Comenius would have expected from his students"

This is the kind of training, maybe better, that a Roman lad would have
had for Greek.

Comenius and academia at the time believed in Latin as the vehicle for
education, and acted accordingly.

So what's the consensus today on those doing Greek at seminaries for
higher degrees? What kind of standard of Greek is demanded for a
PhD, MA, MDiv, BA, diploma, ktl?

Having said the above, I am not sure that one needs to wait even one
year to open original texts in Greek, but they must be restricted.
I can appreciate that with a background of active use in class of
hundreds, maybe 2000 hours, a person would enjoy any texts picked up.

ERRWSQE
IWANHS



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