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When I was teaching Latin in girls' schools before I became a writer, I didn't much like it if parents would come in and say, 'We'll have less of the Ovid and Virgil and more of the grammar, please.' After all, I was the one in charge. That's how I feel about doctors. You should trust them to do their job properly.

— Maeve Binchy

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My education started with Latin taught at home by a governess, I can't imagine why, and for some reason I attended the Infants Department of the Oxford High School for Girls before moving to the Dragon School at the dangerous age of 8 or so.

— Tim Hunt

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.

— George Andrew Olah

The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.

— Lewis Thomas

They do not know very good Latin, these botanists.

— Albert Hofmann

Deep down, I do not believe that there are any really good parents out there - the same way that I do not believe there were any really good doctors in the 10th century.

— Stefan Molyneux

I had a Latin master who, for no rational reason whatsoever - I was a very quiet kid at school - just hated me.

— Clive Sinclair

My father made me take three years of Latin in high school.

— Robert David Hall

In medical school, you're taught to write in this convoluted, Latinate way. I knew the vocabulary as well as anyone, but I would write kidney instead of nephric. I insisted on using English.

— Ethan Canin

They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.

— John Backus

✗Opposing Perspectives

My mother had been a Latin teacher, and she was always very fascinated with words. She and I shared books and responded to them.

— Jean Fritz