Never ask students to do work in pairs that they could easily do alone.
Sizing Up A Classical School In Less Than Ten Minutes
If you only had ten minutes to assess the health of a classical school, what would you do? What would you want to see? Who would you talk to?
My latest for CiRCE deals with these very questions.
Lately
I have forced myself to listen to beautiful music lately, though this one goes down quite easily.
Foundational
One of the books which inspired The Grand Budapest Hotel. I just began it this morning for the third time in as many years.
Undone
Not since Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go has a work of modern fiction broken my heart so meticulously.
On Hypocrisy
The teacher to the student: Can you not write a single paragraph without becoming bored and checking your phone?
The student to the teacher: Can you not grade a single essay without becoming bored and checking your phone?
Modern Politics
The really delightful thing about so many people running for president is the great bounty of schadenfreude we may enjoy when almost all of them lose.
Sublime
Proverbial, Episode 18: The Joke’s On You
When I’m depressed, I watch standup comedy. I watch it alone. I don’t laugh. When it is over, I feel better.
The latest episode of Proverbial is about jokes, why jokes are offensive, and why you need to be offended every now again.
My Child Is A Theoflect
While it chagrins me to say so, I have my doubts this recent piece for CiRCE will be understood as satire.
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. 