ABSTRACT
A few years ago an article appeared on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times urging that Latin and Greek be taught routinely to high school students in order to improve intelligence (Costa, 1982). The justification given for this recommendation was a study showing that students who had taken Latin and Greek in high school scored 100 points higher on the verbal portion of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) than students who had not studied these languages.
