SnMomof7 Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 http://www.isi.org/lectures/lectures.aspx?SBy=lecture&Sfor=161e5271-b028-4398-9b81-f38a3987c1e0 This is a bit of a s/o of Hunter's "3 Generations" thread (which I am still reading). Her mention of this book took me on a jolly Google chase, and here we are. I have just loaded this on my iPod, so I can't comment on it yet. I'm off to listen! Enjoy :). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Gosh, I read that book years ago.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnMomof7 Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 I don't have a copy, so this free lecture will have to get me by for now :). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 I don't have a copy, so this free lecture will have to get me by for now :). I'm sorry to say, but I've found few books more off-putting that this one. Tracy Lee Simmons has quite a high opinion of himself, and a rather low one of everyone else. The theme of his work is: To be an educated person you must know Latin and Greek. I, Tracy Lee Simmons, am an educated person, but you are not. And don't kid yourself, you never will be! I am great, you are an idiot. That's the short version :tongue_smilie: Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 (edited) I do not recommend starting this book at the beginning. Start on page 71, part two, Prospects from the Castilian Springs. This part of the book lists the scope and sequence of an LCC education. Skip the rest if you like. Before LCC was written, CP and The Devil Knows Latin were all we had. My memory is glitching again, but we used Quintilian for the progym? Did we also use it for LCC? Edited August 1, 2011 by Hunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnMomof7 Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 Well, I just finished listening to the lecture and enjoyed it. Though I haven't read the book (as previously noted), in this speech Simmons does go to great lengths to explain that he does NOT consider Latin and Greek to be the only markers of a proper, good, or excellent education. He does believe that without them you cannot have a Classical education however :). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Well, I just finished listening to the lecture and enjoyed it. Though I haven't read the book (as previously noted), in this speech Simmons does go to great lengths to explain that he does NOT consider Latin and Greek to be the only markers of a proper, good, or excellent education. He does believe that without them you cannot have a Classical education however :). He is less magnanimous in his book. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SorrelZG Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 I'm sorry to say, but I've found few books more off-putting that this one. Tracy Lee Simmons has quite a high opinion of himself, and a rather low one of everyone else. The theme of his work is: To be an educated person you must know Latin and Greek. I, Tracy Lee Simmons, am an educated person, but you are not. And don't kid yourself, you never will be! I am great, you are an idiot. That's the short version :tongue_smilie: Bill The book gave me no such impression of Simmons. Quite the contrary, actually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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