Welcome to my blog! I’m Tom Cox, a teacher and student of all things Latin and Greek. My undergraduate education, from Hillsdale College, is in Latin and Greek. In 2019, I completed the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts program at St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD.

In 2020, I started a podcast following Plutarch’s Lives from start to finish. Join me there for an introduction—or review—of the legacy of the Greeks and Romans. 

I teach Latin and Plutarch online, so stay tuned here or sign up to my email list to hear more about that.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for truth. Imagine if a man, in need of fire from his neighbor, should arrive at his neighbor’s house and stay continually warming himself by his neighbor’s bright fire. Just so it the man who comes to another for the benefit of discourse, but does not think it necessary to kindle from it some illumination for himself or some thinking of his own, but just sits, delighting in the discourse. He gets a bright and warm glow from the opinion imparted to him, but the chill and darkness of his inner mind he has neither dissipated nor banished with the warm glow of philosophy. —Plutarch, De Auditu 18.

Why This Blog?

This is the place for me to explore and expand my own education. Why do it online? Forcing myself to publish content brings out a higher standard of work. Whether it helps a student in my classroom or a student halfway across the world, it’s sure to make me a better teacher.

Learning to Teach

I love to learn, so that I may teach. Nothing, however outstanding and however helpful, will ever give me any pleasure if the knowledge is to be for my benefit alone. —Seneca, Epistle 6.4

Teaching to Learn

gaudeo discere, ut doceam; nec me ulla res delectabit, licet sit eximia et salutaris, quam mihi uni sciturus sum. —Seneca Epistle 6.4