THE CASE FOR THE CLASSICS: GREEK
1. The problem
2. Fallacy of the theory that classical education is a
mere accidental survival from the Middle Ages
3. We study Ancient Greece :
(a) as containing, with Rome, the history of our
origins, and explaining much in our literature,
language and ideals
(6) for its literature, art and life ; evidence of
their value from (a) modern poets, (B) the
trenches, (y) the British Museum, (8) the effect
of Greece on the world at different epochs ;
meaning of Greek life to the Renaissance ; its
meaning to a modern working man
Greece
(c) as a pattern of creative intelligence; her
achievement; Greek literature full of the key
thoughts on which intellectual life depends : pro-
ducts of creative intelligence working on theology,
literature, ethics, science ; fallacy of the idea that
Greek thought is antiquated, because the Greeks
knew less than we