/lit/ - Literature

Every educated person has to know at least 2 languages and every writer - at least 3. Doesn't really matter which ones.

>>15443619
Imagine being educated without knowing the models that Western literature and poetry has learned from and used for the past two thousand years.

>>15443772
>you need to learn about the geocentric model before understanding the heliocentric model of the solar system.

It's a nice bit of trivia to be aware of, yes, but hardly essential.

>>15443619
Abandoning the ideas that were written in Greek and Latin was the worst part. It is not like educated people stopped reading Plato in Greek and Cicero in Latin in order to read them in English. Educated people don't really read either of them. Or at most read one of them in a very superficial way.

>>15443619
You can understand Shakesperean and scientific words better since theyre just made from Greek and Latin building blocks

>>15443815
Essential for what, my dear bugman?

>>15444181
Slurping that sweet, sweet söy milk, my dear /pol/tard.

Just make an etymology course and maintain classical studies.

ITT: People who can't into ancient greek/latin.