Devin Odonnell

Latin…Beyond the Four Walls of Your Classroom

Originally published in Classis Volume XXIII, No. 3 By Amber Burgin Latin is a subject that frequently makes parents cringe, students tremble, and principals desperate to find a teacher. So, when one starts talking about integrating Latin, people will often give me a...

Classical Education and Human Happiness

Classical Education and Human Happiness

Originally published in Classis Volume XX, no. 3 By Trenton D. Leach Aristotle stands in between two giants of history: his teacher, Plato, and his student, Alexander the Great. As both a student of a great teacher and a teacher of a great leader, Aristotle’s insights...

How Do Books Work in Our Classrooms?

How Do Books Work in Our Classrooms?

Imagine three schools serving different neighborhoods in the same community. Each school has a competent teacher taking 10th graders through Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. Upon closer inspection, we will see that the students in these classrooms, though working...

Dr. Louise Cowan: a True Teacher

Dr. Louise Cowan: a True Teacher

Originally published in Classis 2011 Volume XVIII, No. 1 By Ben House Only twelve percent of adult Americans read poetry, according to a recent statistic.1 Several of my students, my eleven-year-old son, and I fit into an even smaller minority: the number of Americans...

How ‘Bout Them Apples

How ‘Bout Them Apples

Originally published in Classis Volume XVI, no. 3 By Eric Indgjerd In an address titled, “The Greatest Single Defect of My Own Latin Education,” Dorothy Sayers confessed the lamentable fact that, although she had started upon Latin at the ripe young age of seven—her...