A Tallahassee charter school board chair said Thursday that he presented an employment ultimatum to a principal for multiple reasons rather than just complaints about a Statue of David lesson, as she has reportedly suggested.
A famous Latin course printed by Cambridge University Press is to be reworked to contain more “diversity” despite criticism that it will damage the subject.
Princeton University will no longer require students to take Latin or ancient Greek to earn a classics degree, a change that comes as part of a larger effort by the school “to address systemic racism” on campus.
Oxford University has indicated that it is considering dropping classic works like Homer’s Illiad from the curriculum. The change was proposed to lessen the “gender achievement gap” in the classical languages department.
Wake Forest University recently launched a program called “Beyond Whiteness” that was designed to introduce students to “diverse” perspectives during their study of the Classical languages. The university calls the tendency to focus on white authors, artists, and scholars in the study of the classics as “misleading and damaging.”
While being labelled a populist by the liberal elite is meant as a criticism, Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party appears to be embracing the term with a nod to ancient Greek master statesman Pericles of Athens.
Greek, Latin; Homer, Ovid, Cicero, Aristophanes; Anabasis, The Aeneid; The Iliad… If there was one area of learning guaranteed never to be hijacked by the forces of ignorance, political correctness, identity politics, social justice and dumbing down, you might have thought, it would be Classics.
Oxford University announced this week that they will overhaul its classics department because male students are outperforming female students.
