Ryan Sellers discussion the modern importance of the Latin language despite being viewed as a "dead" language. Ryan Sellers is a Latin teacher at Memphis University School. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association and as a Regional Vice-President of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. He is the current Co-Chair of the CAMWS Latin Translation Contest and the former State Co-Chair of the Tennessee Junior Classical League. He has presented on a wide variety of pedagogical topics at conferences of organizations such as the American Classical League and the International Boys’ School Coalition, and he has published articles in the academic journals Classical World, Classical Outlook, and Teaching Classical Languages. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx