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Learning to think, to be precise, to weigh your words, to hear each other, is to be able to communicate and is the only means to stop the scary violence that is growing around us.
Ancient Greece offers us a language which I will say is ecumenical. Everyone should learn Greek, because the Greek language helps us first and foremost to understand our own language.
I do not think you learn wisdom just like that, by reading Thucydides and becoming reasonable, but I do believe that if young people came into contact with that period of reflection which is different from our time, but which nevertheless has elements in common, we would think better, in a more measured, more reasonable and more tolerant fashion.
When you think something is beautiful and useful it has to be defended, I believe that the crisis in the teaching of Greek hides a much deeper problem, the crisis of literary teaching in general.
I am still sensitive to beauty. I would say, almost more so! The objects are somewhat distorted, blurry like impressionist paintings that strike you, sometimes, and draw you in. But external beauty remains transitory, whereas the beauty of a text, of a sentence, is an idea that I will keep within me an entire day.
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