Today even our intellectuals speak as if they have zero knowledge of history and what has failed in the past. Emphasis has changed from the belief that no one person or small group of people can possibly be more wise than the whole of conventional wisdom and past philosophy, to the theory that we all should assume we know everything because we "think for ourselves."
Taking three years of Latin or Greek covers just about everything that has happened or will happen historically or politically. I learned more about politics reading Paradise Lost than I did any other book.
