Young Enoch won a free place to Trinity College, Cambridge, took prize after prize in classical studies and, of course, gained a first.

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She said schools with humanities as a specialism had the option to focus on the teaching and learning of classical studies - Latin, Classical Greek and classical civilisation - alongside a core option of history, geography or English.

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Though she began her violin career learning Bach and Beethoven, Narayanan now studies classical Indian music under a guru.

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As formal education took hold, Latin language and literature studies introduced young people to a second, more worldly experience of reading one that, offered in the name of the time-honored tradition of the classical education, did not seem incompatible with their Bible studies.

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