De Ediscente Linguae Latinae

"To embark on any complex English construction without the Latin Grammar is like trying to find one's way across country without map or signposts. That is why so few people nowadays can put together an English paragraph without being betrayed into a false concord, a hanging or wrongly attached participle, or a wrong consecution; and why many of them fall back upon writing in a series of short sentences, like a series of gasps, punctuated only by full stops." D. Sayers

Dorothy Sayers' essay on learning Latin, quite timely with the current vogue for Latin amongst American youth, struck me as 'litteras et legendas et non contemnendas'.

http://www.memoriapress.com/articles/sayers-intropage.html

Reading Dorothy Sayers' essay on the learning of Latin brings to mind the essays of Virginia Woolf and G. Anthony Gorry about learning Greek which I referenced earlier:

http://nekkidass.blogspot.com/2008/08/on-not-knowing-greek.html