Why study the classics?

… Doing Things Badly, and the Good That Comes of It. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The modern education system, with its stupid and unhealthy obsession over testing metrics, constantly requires young people to demonstrate what they can give.  But the classical school only asks the student to show up ready to receive.  This emphasis on the students’ receptivity has one obvious corollary, which is that young people of highly differing aptitudes can benefit from a course of study so conceived.  If the significant thing is not what students bring to their studies, but what they take away, then a considerable disparity in talents can be accommodated in classrooms where engagement is prioritized above all things.Frank