by Dwane | Dec 22, 2015 | Education, Latin, Motivation, The Future, Visual Latin
I received this comment and question: I would love to tell you that your class knocked it out of the park. My son was engaged and excited each Monday night for his Latin class. He loved when you called out his name and answered his questions. Please consider doing...
by Dwane | Dec 12, 2015 | Motivation
“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.” – Robert J. Sawyer
by Dwane | Nov 26, 2015 | Motivation
Working on the Harry Potter series this morning, I discovered this quote: “Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts… that is something on...
by Dwane | Nov 10, 2015 | Education, Latin, Motivation
I received this comment yesterday from the mother of an online student: I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your encouraging comments that you send along with my son’s corrected homework. He has worked very hard over the past couple weeks. Since this is...
by Dwane | Oct 24, 2015 | Ebook, Education, Latin, Motivation, Visual Latin
Yesterday, during class, one of my students asked this question: “Mr. Thomas. We’ve been studying Latin for three years. Why aren’t we fluent?” I stopped class. “Let’s do some math on the board.” Here is what I told them: We...
by Dwane | Oct 5, 2015 | Education, Motivation
For seven years, my family of seven lived in a 900 square foot apartment. We owned it. So, technically, it was a condo. The name change did not change the size of the place. It was still small. For seven years, my wife and I slept on a mat in the living room/dining...
