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....
by Dwane | Sep 5, 2015 | Education, Greek, Italian, Latin, Motivation, Spanish
Perhaps you are familiar with the book Carry On, Mr. Bowditch!, by Jean Lee Latham. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch! is the story of an early American merchant who spends quite a bit of his time at sea. As Mr. Bowditch sails around the world selling his wares, he teaches...
