from across the world, his youngest student being a two-year-old American who he schooled in Latin. Indeed, one of his boasts is that ??I can teach people more Latin in half an hour on Skype, than the Cambridge Latin Course can manage in 18 months??. Let me tell you why I believe this is true. As Mr Gwynne rarely leaves Wexford, he asked if we could meet on Skype. Initially, I was not keen as I don??t believe in hiding behind a screen. However, I was finally persuaded and we ??met?? last week. Soon after our conversation commenced, I forgot that I was speaking to Mr Gwynne through a computer. For nearly two hours, we discussed politics, education, philosophy, journalism and ethics. Without warning, I was transported back to a time when people sought to live in the glow of high ideals. I was lucky to have been educated by such people. Like Mr Gwynne, they believed that grammar is not confined to the study of language, but underpins everything we do. As he explains, the techniques of any activity ??must be learned as a science ?? often very painstakingly in the case of the most satisfying and enjoyable occupations ?? before the budding practitioner can expect to flourish at it??. In an age when ??the public has been preposterously asked to believe the basics of how to do something destroys a child??s creativity??, Nevile Gwynne stands as a stunning corrective to child-centred claptrap. Both humorous and dignified, he reminds