J.A.C.T.

Extract

Nearly sixty years ago, when Latin and Greek were losing their old predominance in the school curriculum, the Classical Association was founded to rally support for them and champion their claims. Since then there have been many attacks on them, and much slow erosion of their position. They have had a share in the post-war boom in sixth forms, but it is a diminishing share, for other subjects are expanding faster. This relative decline is likely to be accentuated by the current drive to promote science in education, and consequently there is good cause for anxiety about the future: this time it may be a question not of pre-eminence in the schools, but of survival itself. It is this anxiety, among teachers and dons, and especially in the institutes of education, where general trends are perhaps more clearly seen, that has prompted, the launching this year of a new society—the Joint Association of Classical Teachers.