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Part of the reason

Historian - Patrick Biernat

or “it exposes students to unique cultures”. While it seems boring as you’re sitting in class and wondering why you’re learning the grammar of a “dead” language, it’s absolutely true.

In my 8th grade and freshman grammar classes, I often didn’t fully understand what we were learning, but

As I was sitting in my French I class (EW!), we were learning about quantities. You know, enough of this, some of that, etc. During an example, my teacher said, “I want part of that croissant”. Immediately, tout de suite, without hesitation, the magic words popped into my mind: Partitive Genitive.

the world we live in and the different cultures around the world. It changed my life for the better.

Even without the philosophical arguments, studying Latin meant I was able to join the amazing JCL community, serve as its historian, and go to two amazing conventions. For all those considering dropping out of classics, hang in there. It’s worth it.

Everyone stresses about the impacts of learning classics in boring aspects of life that appeal to administrators and educational pundits like “it grows the mind”

once I started getting further and further into my Latin studies, those connections finally clicked as I learned how Latin did it. It changed the way I think about and view

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