by Dwane | Dec 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
I am out in east Tennessee… in the mountains. Turns out, that’s a problem. The wifi isn’t that great. So, I missed some classes this morning. Going to try again tomorrow… but, no guarantees. No worries. If it doesn’t work, I will...
by Dwane | Dec 11, 2019 | Education, Latin in Literature, Motivation
Every year, I take students through Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars. We are back at it again. Before I say anything else, let me point something out… something that I point out all the time. The New Testament is under constant attack by scholars. It...
by Dwane | Dec 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
Morning classes only are cancelled from Thursday, December 12 – Saturday, December 14. There will be no classes at all from December 23 – January 4. Classes will resume January 7, 2020. ================================================= First Year Latin by Robert...
by Dwane | Dec 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
I am reading another book by Robert Kiyosaki. (I am a big fan of his book Rich Dad, Poor Dad.) Fake, his latest book, exposes the underbelly of the government’s financial shenanigans, and the ridiculousness of the government school system. Warning. The...
by Dwane | Dec 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
We are back! Classes resume tomorrow, December 3, 2019. I may cancel the early morning classes only from December 11 – 14. We will see. I will let you know. There will be no classes at all from December 23 – January 4. Classes will resume January 7,...
by Dwane | Dec 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
I go back and forth on the early Monday morning First Year Latin class. I know. I know. I am cancelling them again. During the month of December, my wife and I will be serving breakfast at the Nashville rescue mission. Breakfast starts at 5:30 am… so, the...
by Dwane | Nov 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
I received this question: I want to buy my daughter a Latin Bible. We are not Catholic, so I don’t have any experience with the different versions. If you do, would you recommend the Clementine or Jerome translation? What about a French Bible? If we want to use...
by Dwane | Nov 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
I get high school credit questions all the time. I could reply to the credit question. Or, I could let someone else handle this one for me. This response, by Susan Wise Bauer, is the best response I have seen:...
by Dwane | Nov 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
I try not to repost too much. After all, I know some of you are reading the same things I am reading. I don’t like wasting your time. Though… I really like wasting my own time. But, that’s another story. Anyway, this post by James Altucher made...
by Dwane | Nov 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
Reminder: There will be no classes on Tuesday, November 26 and Thursday, November 28. There will be morning classes (First Year Latin by Robert Henle only) that week for anyone who wants to show up. ================================================= First Year...
by Dwane | Nov 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
I received this question: My daughter is using your Henle Latin I videos to help her through her Classical Conversations Latin class. We have heard that it is super important to memorize the principal parts of each verb. In your videos it sounds like you don’t...
by Dwane | Nov 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
by Dwane | Nov 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
Reminder: There will be no classes on Tuesday, November 26 and Thursday, November 28. There may be morning classes that week for anyone who wants to show up. Maybe. ================================================= First Year Latin by Robert Henle In the early...
by Dwane | Nov 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
I received this question: I have worked through Memoria Press’s Prima Latina, First Form Latin, and Second Form Latin with my high school age students, and we are a few lessons into Third Form. Honestly, it’s become a bit of a slog and I don’t...
by Dwane | Nov 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
A few weeks ago, I recommend a book, Skip College: Launch Your Career Without Debt, Distractions, or a Degree. Naturally, it got me into some trouble. Lost some subscribers. Made some enemies. But, it also encouraged some people. Made some new friends. Opened some...
by Dwane | Oct 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
Someone suggested I put something funny on a t-shirt. Something like, “Modern people can’t read this”… in Latin. So, I did. I am using teespring to do this. Looking for a lower cost alternative. But, for now, if you want t-shirt, sweatshirt,...
by Dwane | Oct 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
I received this question: A question for Lesson 12: pg 46 #3 and #6 are both Venit to match to a plural and singular imperative. Wouldn’t one of them need the -nt plural ending for the indicative to know which one is plural? Here is my reply: Correct. I have...
by Dwane | Oct 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
Reminder: There will be no classes on Tuesday, November 26 and Thursday, November 28. There may be morning classes that week for anyone who wants to show up. Maybe. ================================================= First Year Latin by Robert Henle In the early...
by Dwane | Oct 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
A few weeks ago, I read an article by Seth Godin. I love reading his work. He is succinct. Blunt. To the point. My kind of writing. The kind of writing that gets you into trouble. Read this. It won’t take long....
by Dwane | Oct 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
Guys, I will be out of town again on Thursday. I will not be back until Sunday. Morning classes are cancelled Thursday-Saturday. But, I did not want to cancel the Lingua Latina classes this week. So, just this once, those classes will meet tomorrow, Wednesday,...
by Dwane | Oct 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
I can’t seem to get a break lately. I HATE cancelling classes, guys. But, a family issue has suddenly come up this morning, and I have to take care of it right now. I am so sorry. We will just expand classes into early May to make up for all we have...
by Dwane | Oct 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
“School is dehumanising. It serves a number of purposes, two of which are babysitting and the inculcation of conformity. Few people look back on their schooldays as being the happiest of their lives. Homeschooling, on the other hand, trains a child to associate...
by Dwane | Oct 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
For those of you in the Lingua Latina classes, you know that we are working our way through the exercise workbook Mr. Ørberg wrote. Here is the book (in case you don’t know what I am talking about): Exercitia Latina I. Because the Exerctia exercises are so...
by Dwane | Oct 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
Yesterday, my wife invited some friends and relatives over for lunch. She made a cheesecake. But, here’s the thing. She made it from cashews. I suppose she should have called it cashewcake. No one complained. Quite the opposite. Everyone...
by Dwane | Oct 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
Time for me to weed out some subscribers. I am going to do this by recommending a book. New York author James Altucher says that if he walked into Times Square and yelled, “I am God, and I am here to save you!” he would get some strange looks, but most...
