Category Archives: Education

Fato Profugus, or Trail of Tears

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Uncomely and Broken

This weekend, the 18th annual Trail of Tears Remembrance Ride roared down Highway 41A, not so far from my house.  As we do every year, my family and I walked up to the Sewanee Market to watch with our neighbors … Continue reading →

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Protected: An Empty Library, A Tower of Wind

Posted on September 8, 2012 by Uncomely and Broken

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Vos Salutamus

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Uncomely and Broken

My chief duty on graduation weekend in Sewanee is to coach the salutatorian on the Latin address.  The Commencement ceremony on Sunday begins with greetings in turn to the Chancellor and the Episcopal bishops whose dioceses own the university, the … Continue reading →

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Argus’ Tale

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Uncomely and Broken

Sometimes when I’m teaching Homer’s Odyssey, I ask students to write a short story about a passage they’ve read but from the perspective of a character other than Odysseus.  I decided to try my own hand at the assignment.  It’s … Continue reading →

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Blockheading and Boxing Enough

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Uncomely and Broken

The teaching of Latin a century or two ago was predicated on its very difficulty, the mastering of which offered a “mental discipline” that usually required an accompanying physical component.  Champions of classical education in the eighteenth and nineteenth century … Continue reading →

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Pictures at an Exhibition, or, “The Value-added Potential of Liberal Education”

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Uncomely and Broken

For the Sewanee Faculty Retreat on August 20, 2010, the dean asked me to give a response to a remark in Louis Menand’s The Marketplace of Ideas, our assigned reading, about “the value-added potential of liberal education” (p. 56). I’m … Continue reading →

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