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Welcome back to a delectable education, the podcast that spreads the feast of the Charlotte

Mason Method. I'm Emily Kaiser and I'm here with fellow Latin trepidacious person Nicole

William and a little more Latin confident Liz Ketro. And we're talking about Latin today, a subject that has a long

enduring tradition in education in any application, but one that Mason still included in her Feast of Education,

that she spread before all children.

Mom, can you tell us briefly about what Latin looked like in a normal school curriculum during

Mason's time or up to Mason's time?

Well, it seems like from most of the novels I've read as well as testimonies from people who

wrote about teaching Latin that it was a most dreaded subject by most children.

It was very dull. They did arduous, lengthy written lessons and they were kind of left to guess at the meaning and be looking up things in their dictionaries.

And it was for a child sort of like eating their broccoli.

It was something they had to do every day they didn't want to do it

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