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...
by Dwane | Sep 28, 2015 | Education, Motivation
For years, I have subscribed to Bob Bly’s newsletter. Now and then, I think of unsubscribing. After all, I get about 100 emails a day. I try to respond to all of them. It would be nice to receive only 99. Just when I am about to unsubscribe, he does...
by Dwane | Sep 8, 2015 | Education, Motivation
Without going into too much detail, I received a disheartening email yesterday. One of my online students is a homeschool student. But, she is not a Christian. Her parents are homeschooling her simply because they believe homeschooling is better for their daughter....
