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.
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)