What teachers of speech may learn from the theory and practice of the Greeks
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9238593 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Shorey (University of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1922 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 105-131 |
| Publication date | 1922-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Quarterly Journal of Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-5630 • E-ISSN: 1479-5779 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00335632209379372 |
| OpenAlex | W2019002101 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
I T is not easy to speak on any topic of classical antiquity in these days without wasting time on what should be superfluous apologies.The new education has prepared a class of readers for Wells' Outline of History who are ready to swallow blindly his pronouncement that the literature of Rome counts for nothing in our culture and the literature of Greece for much less than it is the interest of the pedants who teach it to claim.I shall take it for granted that this audience does not require a warning against this poisoning of the wells of history and that, though most of you may be too busy to give much time* to the study of the classics you all have a notion of the right perspective and truth of the matter, which is quite simple.The ancients did not have the science and the scientific industrialism which the modern world has developed in the past hundred and fifty years.They did have, through a continuous civilization of a thousand years, a literature, a literary culture and an education the equal of our own.This culture, apart from its intrinsic beauty, is historically the chief source of ours.These elementary truisms suffice to make the Greek and Roman classics, whether in the original or in translation, and in spite of all temporary ebbs and flow of fashion far more significant for any genuinely liberal modern education than ever can be the prehistoric anthropologies, the psychelogies, and the sociologies which students, recalcitrant to the labor of mastering either science or classics, prefer to substitute for them
Greeks · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Sociology · Classics · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 1923 - 1982 (60) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |