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Excerpt from The Pedagogical Seminary, Vol. 12: A Quarterly International Record of Educational Literature, Institutions and Progress
Thorndike asked a number of students of Latin the follow ing questions: (1) Was Cicero courageous? (2) In which were the Romans most proficient, making laws, writing books, or building beautiful buildings? (3) Which were the Romans most like, the English or the Americans? Why? (4) Is there any other reason for reading Caesar besides the wish to learn the Latin language? The answers obtained lead him to the conclusion that it seems fairly sure that the average high school student is more likely to be misinformed than instructed about Roman history by his year's reading of Cicero. He gets only a superficial stratum of fact and may be utterly mistaken in his interpretation of it. The text seems to have failed sig nally to arouse any useful interest in the man Cicero or the times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
