{"id":4247,"date":"2011-07-13T13:05:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T13:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulvallely.com\/archive\/?p=4247"},"modified":"2013-09-19T13:38:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T12:38:37","slug":"knowledge-itself-is-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulvallely.com\/archive\/?p=4247","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge itself is power&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is the thinking of the 1950s, Labour\u2019s Andy Burnham said yesterday in a philippic against pupils being able to choose Latin as part of the new English baccalaureate. He prefers engineering, business studies and ICT to create \u201ca route into work\u201d for Britain\u2019s young people. But it is a modern myth that Latin is outdated. Latin is the maths of the humanities \u2013 a training in analytical thought for which no previous knowledge is required. It fires the imagination of the young with its goddesses, gladiators and mythological flying horses. It offers a great foundation for later language learning. Its students do better in reading, comprehension, vocabulary and conceptual thinking. Ipsa scientia potestas est.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the thinking of the 1950s, Labour\u2019s Andy Burnham said yesterday in a philippic against pupils being able to choose Latin as part of the new English baccalaureate. He prefers engineering, business studies and ICT to create \u201ca route into work\u201d for Britain\u2019s young people. But it is a modern myth that Latin is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,38],"tags":[80,346],"class_list":["post-4247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-society","tag-education","tag-latin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulvallely.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulvallely.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulvallely.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulvallely.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulvallely.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4247"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/paulvallely.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8024,"href":"https:\/\/paulvallely.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions\/8024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulvallely.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulvallely.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulvallely.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}