Did you know that Plutarch was born, nearly 400 years later, in Chaeronea, the site of a very strategic battle…
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King Lear
Anyone else studying Shakespeare’s King Lear this year? Dorothea Beale wrote an illuminating article on the play in the Parents’…
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On Exams
I previously shared notes made by a student at Mason’s teacher training college in Ambleside. These were in the form of ‘narrated…
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Snakes in Ireland and Other Thoughts on Composition
‘Composition’ comes by Nature.––In fact, lessons on ‘composition’ should follow the model of that famous essay on “Snakes in Ireland”––”There are none.”…
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