Classical Education Is Not for Everyone

The case for classical education is not air tight, nor can it be. But it deserves another hearing. Homage has been paid to it before our time and by finer inds. Classics serves no class tyrants and oligarchs can quote cicero too. Any one with a modicum of talent and energy can take on large dollops that classics offers. Talent is no respecter of social status. No one with the requisite ability need be left out. Parnassus can be scaled by any one with intelligence and curiosity who is also possessed of a doggedness for detail. The vistas have never been accessible to so many.