from Livy's Ab Urbe Condita . Book 21. Translation by Bruce J. Butterfield 21.3 ... The soldiers led the way by bringing the youn...

Perhaps the most difficult tasks for the teacher of foreign languages is to persuade students of the need to read a work in its native lang...

Welcome to Part Seven of our series on the rhetoric of American presidential inaugural addresses. Please feel free to look at the previous ...

The second most boring part of teaching is reviewing material, for it catches the teacher in the doldrums between summarizing and examini...

Directed by Mike Newell. 2012. Critics often observe that great technique can redeem humble subject matter with examples  The Magic Flut...

It's a trite saying that school is wasted on the young, but I can't otherwise explain how a precious poem, studied in one of my fav...

Welcome to Part Six of our series on the rhetoric of American presidential inaugural addresses. Please feel free to look at the previous en...

Some attain immortality by doing great deeds, others by getting swept up in the affairs of great men. It's unlikely we would remember a...

I don't frequent libraries for a number of reasons, chief among them that environments in which people are trying to keep quiet perturb...

Welcome to Part Five of our series on the rhetoric of American presidential inaugural addresses. Please feel free to take a peek at the pr...

Everyone likes to declare something dead. Conservatives rejoice at the diagnosis so the idea can be lamented and progressives celebrate as ...

by Noah Lukeman. 2006. A Dash of Style  is an exciting book on grammatical punctuation. Yes, that's right: exciting. It's not a hi...

Words are powerful, and because of this sometimes they die iniquitous deaths. Verbicide, the twisting of an ancient, honest word to a new, ...

I came upon here today this passage from Moby Dick , a work I've not read in toto for some years. How much richer it seems now! So muc...

Fourteen years ago, a teacher told me that he didn't share his father's given name because his father wanted him to be unique. A fe...