by Dwane | Nov 16, 2016 | Education, The Future
I am about to start grading a pile of Latin and Greek papers. I hate it. I don’t hate it because of the work it represents. After all, grading papers is a good deal for me. Grading papers makes me very good at Latin and Greek. As I scroll through, looking...
by Dwane | Nov 16, 2016 | Education
I received this question from one of my students: I was wondering, do you enjoy football? Here is my reply: I really do not want to answer this email. Hence, the delay. You likely do not want to hear my response. No. I do not. I consider it barbaric and brutal....
by Dwane | Nov 5, 2016 | Education, Tip of the Week
Recently, several students sent me some sloppy writing. I had to send them a rather hard email. You may find some helpful tips here. Here’s the email: ================================================= First of all, run everything you write through Grammarly....
by Dwane | Nov 1, 2016 | Education, Latin
This is from the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. I am in complete agreement. ================================================== I have already mentioned that I had only one year’s instruction in a Latin School, and that when very young, after which I...
by Dwane | Oct 19, 2016 | Education, Latin
I received this inquiry: I am contacting you because my grandson, who is good at languages, is thinking of giving up latin because he says it is too difficult. Really I think he is bored with having to learn lists of vocabulary etc Obviously we are in the UK but given...
by Dwane | Oct 6, 2016 | Education
Some of my students use Google translate before they send me their homework. Google translate is great for individual words, and for pronunciation practice. With full sentences and paragraphs, things can get...
