Spheroids – moron extraordinaire
Your humble blogger has no more energy – these imbecile MPs have sapped it all. Take it away, Boris:
Being an even-tempered fellow, and given that we have already put up with so much nonsense from the Labour Government, I find there are very few ministerial pronouncements that make me wild with anger. We have learnt to be phlegmatic about the mistakes of a government that has banned 4,300 courses of human conduct, plunged this country into the deepest recession in memory, and so skewed the economy that 70 per cent of the Newcastle workforce is in the pay of the state.
But there are times when a minister says something so maddening, so death-defyingly stupid, that I am glad not to be in the same room in case I should reach out, grab his tie, and end what is left of my political career with one almighty head-butt.
Such were my feelings on reading Mr Ed Balls on the subject of teaching Latin in schools. Speaking on the radio, Spheroids dismissed the idea that Latin could inspire or motivate pupils. Head teachers often took him to see the benefits of dance, or technology, or sport, said this intergalactic ass, and continued: “No one has ever taken me to a Latin lesson to make the same point. Very few parents are pushing for it, very few pupils want to study it.”
Like me, Ed Balls was lucky to be educated at a wonderful fee-paying school where they taught us Latin. For the past 30 years children from such schools have dominated the study of classics at university. They have a ladder up to follow great courses, under brilliant men and women, at some of the best universities in the world – and to go on to good jobs. How mad, how infamous, that a Labour minister – a Labour minister – should seek to kick that ladder away for children less privileged than him.
Amen to that.
Davignon, the Bilderberger head dark lord, said they were wonderful talent spotters. Yep, they did a great job with Spheroids and their earlier graduate, Brown. Not only will the children of tomorrow be criminals because anything they do is, by definition, criminal but they will also be pig-ignorant.
What have these people done to our future? What have they done?
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I took Latin in high school, and have never regretted it. A few of the reasons below:
1. It is good discipline, just like doing mathematical proofs.
2. You learn more about your own language by comparison.
3. It enables you to understand bits of other Romance languages, and deduce many scientific terms.
4. A lot of English is based on Latin, and definitions can be puzzled out in many cases.
5. It is more interesting reading history if you can read it in the original language. I quite enjoyed reading Caesar’s journals concerning the Gallic Wars.