In the face of a progressive impoverishment of the Italian language and its study (to which the abominable amount of time we spend on social media certainly contributes) there are those who propose to reinstate the study of Latin in middle school.
Latin, as a sort of “precursor”, it could strengthen the grammatical and syntactic foundations that are the basis of our language, just as the study of classical culture could strengthen our ability to think and argue. It is not easy to express oneself on an issue such as the reintroduction of Latin in schools: good thing, old thing or simply “thing”?

Reflecting, but, we have recovered an excerpt from Antonio Gramsci, which deserves to be read: “Latin is not studied to learn Latin, we study to get kids used to studying, to analyze a historical body that can be treated like a corpse but which continually recomposes itself into life. Naturally, I don't believe that Latin and Greek have intrinsic thaumaturgical qualities: I say that in a given environment, in a given culture, with a given tradition, the study thus graduated gave those certain effects. Latin and Greek can be substituted and they will be replaced usefully, but it will be necessary to know how to arrange the new subject or the new series of subjects didactically, in order to obtain equivalent results of general human education, starting from a young boy up to the age of professional choice".
(SOURCE: Antonio Gramsci, Notebooks from prison, Einaudi, 1975)
The study of Latin, traditionally, it occurred simultaneously with the study of the classical cultural corpus: from great authors to philosophy. It is precisely this holistic approach that has made Greek and Latin the subjects of choice for the intellectual elite. And that's exactly it holistic approach that we should follow in the choice to restore Latin to middle school or to orient ourselves towards another cultural model. It doesn't matter what the model is, but we must assure them of the solidity that classical studies have built over two millennia.
SOURCE: https://portalebambini.it/ritornare-allo-studio-dei-classici/