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How Jack Perfected His Greek

C.S. Lewis learned Greek through grammar-translation, but perfected it by drinking in large gulps from the original authors. A technique that may be worth trying with our own students.

New Year’s Rolling Resolutions

Some of my resolutions roll over form year to year. Any decent habit can be improved. See what I did this year to make more room for reading in my life.

A Short History of Latin Teaching Methods

Fr. Most, a mid-20th-century Jesuit Classics professor in Iowa, wrote a Latin textbook that broke many precedents about how to teach Latin. To prepare the students and teacher who would use his book, he begins by outlining the history of the different methods of teaching Latin. I find it to be a helpful perspective in the Acquisition vs. Analytical debate about learning Latin.