[geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Sandwich Maker <adh at an.bradford.ma.us>
>Date: 2007/04/12 Thu PM 05:49:13 CDT
>To: geeks at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

>" From: velociraptor <velociraptor at gmail.com>
<snip>
>" One of my good college
>" friends (a history & classics geek, on top of an IT geek) has been
>" teaching his son, who's 8, iirc, Greek and Latin.  His son is gobbling
>" up pretty much every piece of info put in front of him by his dad.  He
>" loves it, so he doesn't even think it's hard.
>
>it isn't hard, for kids.  we are wired for learning, and learning
>language, when we're young.  consider how much english you learn
>without even trying, by age 4.  your friend's son is probably helped
>by parents who are fluent and comfortable in greek and latin.

My old High School has started teaching Latin in the 6th, 7th, and 8th grade 
classes - it seems to be working well (my "High School" included grades 6 -> 
12).

Lionel