by Dwane | Jun 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
I am still, slowly, uploading old “tips of the week” and archiving them here: https://dwanethomas.com/tip-week-archives/ Here is tip #196 from a few weeks back. Sometimes it’s too easy to get absorbed. We get buried in work, or in a project and lose track...
by Dwane | Jun 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
This week I received an email that included this question: What are your thoughts on Classical education? Well… Here are my thoughts on Classical education…. I am still a fan of Classical education. I think. Still working through this one myself. ...
by Dwane | Jun 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
I recently stumbled across an astonishing quote by Derek Sivers, an author I know nothing about. Or, didn’t know anything about until yesterday. Here’s the quote: “I hate to waste a single hour. I feel the precious value of time, most of the time. I imagine my...
by Dwane | Jun 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still...
by Dwane | Jun 1, 2021 | Education, Latin, Tip of the Week
I used to take students through Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars. Every year I would ask myself, “Why am I doing this to these poor students? And, Why am I doing this to myself?” I personally am quite interested in Caesar’s romp through France,...
