The rediscovery of ancient Greek philosophy has in turn sparked the Golden Age of many other societies.

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Hard to believe now, but in the early 1960s, most U.S. public schools still taught Latin, trigonometry, calculus, ancient Greek and Roman history, philosophy and civics.

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One such example is Dr. Ludwig Oechslin, who not only holds degrees in archaeology and ancient Greek, but also holds doctorates in philosophy, theoretical physics and astronomy.

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