Why it is important to learn Latin

Who at school decided for Latin has, for an endlessly long box rates, for memorizing declination and conjugation tables, for complicated verses, for the cases ablative and vocative in German unknown cases, he had to be asked 20 years ago why you are doing with a dead language that is not even useful when ordering a dinner on Rome vacation. Today is more than ever, in a highly digitized world,, in the old the stigma the backwardness and thus the refusal to modernize.

You can – and should – you can learn from the look back. Humanistic education is not only an end in itself, not mere educational gimmick, not only status symbol, but, apart from the immense cultural -historical importance, serves to develop an aesthetic, ethical and moral mindset – after all, it is essentially one of the decisive questions: What actually makes people? So all of us and therefore basically the world, the whole social structure.

Question your own thinking patterns

Of course, this question will not be answered with a Latinum in your pocket, that would be measured. But one approaches thinking patterns, questioning your own, revised, comparing ideas of yore of today. The language may have died out, but even after 2000 years, those who deal with it can succeed in the bridge to modernity.