Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1904 — The Value of Latin. [ARTICLE]

The Value of Latin.

This story, told at an education meeting In London the other night, may perhaps be enjoyed by these who are antagonistic to the teaching of the “dead languages.” At a certain school a certain boy was regularly absent during the hour in which Latin was taught, and the tdacher called upon the boy’s father, at whose instructions, it had been learned, the lad kept away. The teacher asked for an explanation, and the father said: “It is all right. During the Latin hour I am teaching Jimmy something that he will find far more useful than Latin in his progress through life.” The teacher was Interested, and asked what this subject might be. The father replied, “I am teaching my son how to shave without a looking glass.”