A Double Voice on Latin Grammar, or a Gloss to Reflections on the Challenges of Cultural Pedagogy

Abstract

The aim of the article was to demonstrate, referring to the arguments taken from the correspondence and essays of Jerzy Stempowski and Bolesław Miciński, that humanistic education (actually: humanistic formation) still can and should be the foundation of the educational process. The title “Latin grammar” functions here as pars pro toto of culture. Knowledge of classical patterns – attitudes, actions, creation, or destruction of social structures – enables communication and creates the basis for formulating projects of the future. The protagonists of the article remind us about the basic culture forming aspect of tradition – collective memory and individual attitude to it. They also point to individual responsibility as a distinguishing feature of the Mediterranean culture

Keywords

• Memory of the past
• classical tradition
• humanistic culture
• permanence of models
• ethics