Continued from Part I From the introduction to  Paideia , by Werner Jaeger: Education in any human community (be it a family, a soci...

Parents usually surprise me by approving of my wife's and my intent to educate our children ourselves. Older folks and people without...

Once upon a time when I was a was a wee lad of a teacher, a student needed to make up a test. Lo! The naughty boy did not do so when he sho...

Some teachers adore the cliche that a teacher's presentation in the classroom is artistic or theatrical. These people are often very ne...

To close out the topic of cheating in this series, here are a few cheating-related anecdotes from my years teaching Latin. 1. in flagr...

Now that we have discussed why it is necessary to prevent cheating in the classroom we ought to address the next important matter on the su...

When it comes to dealing with cheating, teachers fall into three categories. The first consists of those who refuse to do anything about th...

One of the great delights of teaching is growing old with the craft. Every year you get wiser, you know the material in greater depth and w...

Idiom , sir? Many teachers resent giving tests, not because they are onerous to make and grade, but because they have to give so many ev...

Two types will be familiar to experienced teachers: the teacher who is still at Chapter 3 because "the students aren't ready to mo...

So I've retired from teaching, at least insofar as a man of 30 years can be said to have retired from anything. Maybe I ought to say th...

Without fail, at the close of every quarter and semester comes to the teacher the question, "Is there extra credit?" To this inqu...

Latin has a bad rap nowadays. Actually it's had a bad rap for a while. It is stuffy. Archaic. Blah blah blah. I won't take aim at t...

This might seem a softball post, because it's pretty easy to find confusion, and despair, in the thought of Kanye West lecturing at Oxf...

The most open of secrets among good and honest teachers is the fact, painfully clear, that a Master's Degree in Education is worthles...

The advent of summer is the twilight of education. Never is the profession of teachers or the tradition of learning in a poorer state. Teac...

It's not an idea immediately attractive to anyone with antennae for liberty, putting warning labels on academic content, so it's ...

So I'm teaching Petronius again and of course in teaching satire one always must broach the question of whether a character is self-awa...