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My high school Latin teacher once said that before Sputnik, American Academia cared a lot about Latin and the Classics, but after Sputnik, Americans forgot about the Classics and Latin in favor of Science and Math. How true is this?

by /u/Casiphoner in /r/AskHistorians

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