Neil Pasricha’s article in the Harvard Business Review has eight great suggestions on time management and organization: Centralize reading in your home, Make a public commitment, Find a few trusted lists, Change your mindset about quitting, Channel your reading dollars, Triple your churn rate, Read physical books, and Reapply the 10,000 steps rule. The article,…
Why study Latin — or any language for that matter? For one, I’m lately finding several things I would like to read but have not been translated into English. Further, I’m becoming more cynical about translations in general — you really are at the mercy of the translator when it comes to interpretation. And language…
Digging around for my old Latin resources, I was relieved to find that the Study Guide to Wheelock’s Latin by Dale A. Grote was still freely available online. As we all know, however, when it comes to the InterWebs, too often “One day you’re in and the next day you’re OUT!” Well, Professor Grote already…
A version of How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler is available in PDF format from the Everglades High School website. Though not the same one I have in my library — this one is geared towards reading the Great Books — it still contains a lot of information that would be useful…
While I liked the book, it was not an easy read. I think it could have benefited *greatly* from an editor. Keep in mind, too, that I am an American reading a book on English history. A Brit might not have so much trouble with it? This is the first Ives book I’ve read —…
LibraryThing claims on their about page that it is “an online service to help people catalog their books easily.” There’s a lot more going on than that — so much so that you can get lost for hours just exploring the site. I like LibraryThing and signed up to be a lifetime member almost immediately….
The Cornell Note-Taking System isn’t for everyone, or for every book — it’s actually designed for lecture notes — but it is extremely useful in the right setting. I created this template several years ago for my son to use and he found it quite beneficial for most of his work. I’ve found it quite…
We used this book for ninth grade biology because it was recommended in “The Well-Trained Mind.” It is a good start, but it is not enough work to earn a full high school science credit. And you will definitely need to add labs to make it a laboratory course. But we were happy with the…
I haven’t read any of the other translations of this book, but I will, so I can compare them. I really enjoyed this one, though. There’s also a great section with information about how David Ferry made decisions on how to deal with some of the translation issues. It’s a short book, a quick read,…