Eliminate this word in 2015

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis This is one of my favorite quotes by C.S. Lewis. I started late.  I graduated from high school late.  I was nearly 20.  I had failed English so many times in middle...

What would you do with one year off?

How One Simple Christmas Gift Helped Harper Lee Write One of the Most Profitable Books of All Time By Brian Warner Merry Christmas. Hopefully you didn’t ask for the standard iPad, PlayStation, Beats by Dre, smartphone etc. and instead you decided to think a...

The state is a straight-jacket.

The fall of the Roman empire fascinates me. I have read more about it than a normal person should.  I only wish evernote had existed back when I first started studying the subject.  Just started reading another book about history’s most famous collapse. Charles...

Why not speak like a Roman?

Here’s a Latin question I get once a week… “Why are there two ways to pronounce the same language?” It is often followed by this question: “Why not pronounce Latin the way the ancient Romans pronounced Latin?” Well… There’s the trouble.  No one knows...

The truth we ignore…

In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but the classics. I think this is wise; the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a few things well before he is twenty, and...