La bella lingua….

I intend to run an experiment on myself soon.  I am going to teach myself Italian. This experiment will happen right here on the blog.  My goal: to speak and read Italian by Christmas.  We’ll see. I wanted to run this experiment on myself this summer.  Other...

The hardest book you will ever read.

My students and I just finished another trip through Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata, by Hans Orberg.  Today was the last day of a Latin class that began several years ago. Since we bogged down in the book, the class was off schedule.  I promised students we would...

Right? Wrong? Who cares?

Amoral [Greek ά (without) and Latin mos, moris (custom, habit, morals)]. The moral of a story teaches us a good lesson.  From the moral, we learn the right thing to do.  If we are amoral, we are without standards.  We do not care about right and wrong.    Sometimes...