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[quote=Anonymous]Much of children's education is to inspire a joy of learning and how to learn, not to remember every fact you learn at the time. I bet that most adults don't remember a lot of the facts they were made to learn in high school, like character details in novels or dates of historic events. Usually kids leave a class inspired or uninspired by a subject, point in history, etc. Since both Latin and Spanish are great subjects, I would lean towards letting your DC take the the one they want to take. He can then certainly transfer his extensive knowledge of how language works, grammar, vocabulary, history to his next language or other classes. If they stay in Latin long enough, in addition to learning how Western languages are structured, he will be able to read two thousand year old poetry like Virgil, Ovid, Catullus, etc. in the original text which is pretty amazing, and that is what colleges find so interesting about students pursuing Latin. [/quote]
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