This is probably the highlight of my first year teaching – last year. Not only were we able to start our very own archaeology club, which was hugely successful in its first ever campaign, but we were also able to get to Italy and see the real thing for ourselves.
These are two of my students, Isaac Mendieta and Julien Jacquelin. I adore both of them. Isaac was practically on fire with curiosity, every turn and every nook of every place we went in Italy offered something he hadn’t seen before. …

Just reading a book right now that is explaining why a classical education is crucial and why the classical tradition is still relevant. It inspired me to come up with this quote (take that for what you will!):
Those who seek to liberate you will have you study the past; those who seek to control you will remove it.
I can’t help but think of when the Nazis were burning books. The bonfire of the vanities, if you will. Look at the action, and look at the intention. The Inquisition. Any time …

Just another reason why schools need to adopt Latin in the curriculum again. Latin, since it is an inflected language, is a tough subject because nouns decline and verbs conjugate and there are a lot of forms that must be known in order to use the language. This also gives the students a firm grasp of grammatical concepts while also familiarizing them with root words that form over 60% of the English language. Not to mention, if you can lick Latin, you can lick any language because by comparison, they …