O Tempora! O Mores!

Oh the morals of these times.

That is of course my own translation of some Latin by Cicero.
"Latin you say?"
"Yes Latin."
"but that's a dead language, isn't it?"
"Just a minute - "
"Why would you want to speak Latin?"
"But this isn't just any old Latin, I am speaking."
"No?"
"No."
"Really?"
"Yes, really"
"That's interesting."

Yes, it is interesting. And I'll tell you what's interesting about it is generally we don't realise how important Latin is to English.
"I do."
"No. You don't."
"But I do."
"Shut up, OK?"

Because what we are doing is about going further than some of the cleverest men known to the civilization, like Cicero, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius. They only spoke Roman Latin and Latin Latin. Some even spoke Roman Latin Latin or Latin Roman Latin, but what we can offer is much more than that.

"Is it?"
"Yes, it is actually."
"How?"
"Well, I'll tell you how if you listen"
"Sorry."

Some people said it couldn't be done, other people just wanted to make money out of it. Some people said it couldn't be done but wanted to make money and then did it anyway while pretending that they never wanted to make money out of it or even said that it couldn't be done and they could therefore make money outof it. Some people said they knew it could be done when they at first thought it couldn't be done while not wanting to make money out of that which they had previously said couldn't be done.

"I'm getting confused."
"Are you?"
"Yes."
"Well the point was that some people thought it could be done."
"I thought it was that people thought it couldn't be done."
"That too."
"So the point was the some people thought it could be done and some people thought it couldn't be done?"
"Yes."
"But was was going to be done?"

Some people thought we were mad. Some people even tried to get us certified but we somehow escaped, but we created something new with our Latin programme and it became its own beast. Not a timid beast like a pussy cat or a platypus, it wasn't even, say, a gazelle or a zebra, it was a animal like no-one had even seen before. Maybe a tiger crossed with a giraffe though with really sharp teeth and quite scarey around the eyeballs.

That is why we are completely different from everyone before us and everyone who will come after us.

You've got to cut through and reach their nubile minds so that they understand concepts that we're teaching. That's what we're good at.

We're not active. We're pro-active. We know that our young people have to learn. So we're helping them pro-learn. Proactive-learning. To proactively master language. So it becomes a pro-language.

We're bringing a new light to shine on Latin and leading the way for a new dawn. Teaching them not to fear fear or even fear the fear that fear fears. And if we don't fear the fear that fear could fear if it feared fearing anything, then we can pro-actively master the new analytical skills of our pro-language.

Its not just any Latin. It's BAGSE's Latin.

ddb

Linguam Latinam Bagsiensem Cognoscant.