
HoP 419 - Write Till Your Ink Be Dry - Humanism in Britain
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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How to Teach Your Kids Latin
Thomas A lot was a clerk of the king's council under Henry VIII, and later an English ambassador. His advice here in the spirit of the ancient rhetoric specialist Quintilian is humane and pedagogically ex-stute. All these claims will remind us of one of those noble Greeks, namely Plato, and his republic. But as A lot goes on, he gives advice you wouldn't find in Plato, teach your kids Latin.
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