Taxacom: Latin

[George Beccaloni]

Just proves my point - so 90% do not offer Latin, and no doubt only a
fraction of those pupils at the 10% of schools which do offer it, actually
take it. Since taxonomy is a global endeavor, the question is (as I said in
my original message), what proportion of students in the entire world take
Latin. I am sure it is much less than 1%. I went to schools on 3
continents (including the USA) and none offered Latin. I would have been
interested as I started collecting and studying butterflies from the age of
10 and wanted to know more about scientific names.

Best wishes,

George
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*Dr George Beccaloni FLS*
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On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 at 21:33, Richard Jensen <rjensen at saintmarys.edu> wrote:

> Do you live in isolation?  About 10% of US high schools offer Latin. so
> hundreds (thousands?) of students take it every year..  I had Latin and
> Spanish in high school and the former certainly helped with the latter!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard J
>
> --
> Richard Jensen, Professor Emeritus
> Department of Biology
> Saint Mary's College
> Notre Dame, IN 46556
>