Tip of the Week #196

I am still, slowly, uploading old “tips of the week” and archiving them here: https://dwanethomas.com/tip-week-archives/ Here is tip #196 from a few weeks back. Sometimes it’s too easy to get absorbed.  We get buried in work, or in a project and lose track...

What is Classical Education?

This week I received an email that included this question: What are your thoughts on Classical education? Well… Here are my thoughts on Classical education…. I am still a fan of Classical education.  I think.  Still working through this one myself. ...

Tip of the Week #198: How much is your time worth?

I recently stumbled across an astonishing quote by Derek Sivers, an author I know nothing about.  Or, didn’t know anything about until yesterday.   Here’s the quote: “I hate to waste a single hour.  I feel the precious value of time, most of the time.  I imagine my...

Hey, teachers. Leave them kids alone.

Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still...

Getting ready for Second Year Latin by Robert Henle

I received this question: My son is a rising sophomore in Classical Conversations.  He has gone through Henle First Year and is about to start Henle Second Year.  We are pretty sure we want to get a membership to your sight.  My question is: do you offer any grading...

How did you teach Latin to your own kids?

People often ask me, “How did you teach Latin to your own kids?” This is such a tough question to answer. It may be easier if I tell you what I wish I had done with my own kids. I started my kids out in Latin, but this was before I had discovered Lingua...