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Shakespearean Quote of the Day
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Today I will going to the Shakespeare Theatre's performance of Julius Caesar with a few students and several other teachers, so it's fitting that the quote below comes from that play. My column for Monday calls my current students my best ever (which is true), so you know I could never say this to them. But there have been (very rare) class moments over the last couple of decades when I would have liked to have been able to say: You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! (Julius Caesar) 
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| The word of the day comes from the very beginning of Elizabeth George's new mystery: Careless in Red. Inspector Lynley is on the forty-third day of his solitary walking tour--an effort to cope with his wife's recent death. He sees a solitary surfer and... Read More |
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| We all can picture a politician who fits the contempt expressed in this quotation from Henry lV, Part 1:I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods,Nettled, and stung with pismires, when I hearOf this vile politician.Choose your own example!... Read More |
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| pecuniary--of or relating to moneyThe word of the day comes from the 2004 Advanced Placement literature tests where students were challenged by a Henry James passage from one of his short stories. A tutor interviews for a job because, "as yet one's... Read More |
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| This quotation from Taming of the Shrew might come to your mind as you realize that many schools, including George Mason University where I teach, have just announced a tuition increase of close to 10% for next year:O, I am undone, I am undone!... Read More |
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| dilatory--tending or intended to cause delayThis word of the day is also a Shakespearean quote: I abhor this dilatory sloth. (Henry VIII) I have found students to be dilatory in the completion of their work, but I have also found that teachers are often... Read More |
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| The word of the day is remuneration--pay or recompense.Teachers go into the profession knowing that remuneration will be secondary as a reward for their efforts. A teacher's major recompense is always intangible.... Read More |
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| This quote is from a review of Hamlet by Voltaire--who saw a performance in 1768, 167 years after it was written:It is a vulgar and barbarous drama, which would not be tolerated by the vilest populace of France, or Italy...one would imagine this... Read More |
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| While I am on a roll with Henry IV (Falstaff is clearly the greatest comedian of all time--maybe alongside Lucille Ball), the Shakespearean quote of the day is: There’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune. Henry IV, Part 1... Read More |
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| The Word of the Day comes from yesterday's New York Times Book Review of Jiang Rong's Wolf Totem.transmute--the change from one form or state to another"Jiang Rong seems to have barely attempted to transmute his experiences and epiphanies into... Read More |
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Erica Jacobs
Erica Jacobs is the Education columnist for the DC Examiner, and has taught high school and college for 33 years. She has been around the education block! Email her at ejacob1@gmu.edu.
Erica Jacobs is the Education columnist for the DC Examiner, and has taught high school and college for 33 years. She has been around the education block! Email her at ejacob1@gmu.edu.
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