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The British system had requirements, including Latin. Im not posit

The British system had requirements, including Latin. Im not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning. – William Scott

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