'young people were once expected to be able to read Latin (and even Greek...'

A bit've thread drift [apols] but another maybe linked topic of what we all were given to learn at school & how relevant or not it's been in our lives.

Ohms Law: never used it

Algebra, no

French, no - German &/or Spanish would've been more useful

plus piles of other stuff completely irrelevant or well outmoded