While he was in office, Boris Johnson (who was famously fond of the language) tried to make it more accessible via the Latin Excellence Programme, a £4m ($4.6m) scheme to bring it to 40 state schools
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskLatin occupies an odd place in English curriculums. One part proper subject, two parts smug social shibboleth, to have chanted “amo, amas, amat” in a Latin class has long implied membership of another kind of class altogether. The decline and almost fall of Latin in state schools in the 20th century did not diminish its social cachet, because numbers in fee-paying independent schools remained high.
Classicists may lament the passing of the subject’s golden age, but it declined for good reasons. A Britain alternately warmed by the white heat of technology and chilled by fear of the cold war had to prioritise science over dead languages. In 1960 Oxford and Cambridge dropped Latin-Level as an entry requirement. Good thing too, says Professor Beard: not to have changed would have been “bloody stupid”.
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