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This month I am reading the Inquiries of Herodotus with 15 students and a colleague in Middlebury College’s Classics department. I say that I am reading Herodotus rather than teaching Herodotus because—unlike my colleague, who brings his knowledge of Greek language and literature—I have never studied the Inquiries before. I am reading it fresh, just as are almost all of our students. Of course, I could have read the book by myself, but as any teacher knows, the best way to study a book that deserves careful reading is to teach...
...came to teach at Middlebury in the fall of 1968, the same academic year the winter term arrived. The 4-1-4 calendar, in which a one-month special term is sandwiched between two four-month regular terms, has been a huge success with students; it is an academic change of pace, and, to paraphrase Marx, they can go to class in the morning, ski in the afternoon and study in the evening. I like winter term because it encourages faculty members to broaden, as well as deepen, their education—to be students as well as scholars. During...
...teach American political thought, constitutional law and political philosophy. During the past 36 years, I have taken advantage of Middlebury’s winter term to study Plato’s Laws, Thucydides, Francis Bacon’s Advancement of Learning, Rousseau’s Emile, the French Revolution, Henry Kissinger, the Puritans, The Education of Henry Adams, Paradise Lost, some Shakespeare plays and criminal justice in America. I have taught many of these courses with other regular and visiting faculty members, including a former student who is a lawyer, and my brother, with whom I enjoyed teaching Shakespeare...
...document sets aside two representatives from each district—25 percent of the lower house—for women, who become equal citizens under the law. On the most contentious issue of ethnic equality, the new constitution recognizes the right of each ethnic group to use and teach its own language in areas where it is the majority...
...Some students say that making information available is not enough to teach academic and residential advisers how to approach a student about mental health...