System in everything
A curious exchange between Anna Sergeyevna and Bazarov in Turgenev's Fathers and Sons. Somehow, Anna's crisp response chills the romance...
A straight-cut ditch or a meandering brook
Thoreau's comment about education will resonate today with many teachers and students, but I am glad he included the word...
Learning to write
How do you learn to write? My belief is that if fine writing comes from you, mostly it is due to...
Learning as lift off
WritingRedux celebrates language that is alive and pulsating. Â It celebrates the joys and rewards of reading and writing. Â What...
Outlandish-looking grammar
Although I've managed to master a couple of foreign languages, outlandish-looking grammar has so far stymied my repeated, and repeatedly...
Learning by heart
Listening time: 10 minutes.Â
It's been playing on my mind, the fact that recently I haven't learned any...
New year’s readolutions
Happy new year!  What will you be reading?  What do you wish to read? Feel free to send me a...
On being learned
Dorothea is the more studious of two sisters and marries an older bookish chap, to the consternation of her relatives....
Euclidian toothache
Young Tom Tulliver makes the case (in vain) that studying Euclid causes toothache. If you allow for psychosomatic effect, he...
Ambition and acting
‘I like big parts, I like talking a lot and I like using complicated language.’ Â
This marvelous...
On the Elizabethans and book learning
I have no idea if this is a fair appraisal of the Elizabethan stance on book learning, but I have...
A private anthology
Although this is a public domain website, it is also a 'private anthology', and wonderful will be the day when...
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