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I've mentioned here that I got to study with him in his summer course the very last year it was held in Rome (when he got sick and ultimately came back to the U
by schoen 2y ago
I've mentioned here that I got to study with him in his summer course the very last year it was held in Rome (when he got sick and ultimately came back to the U.S.).
He was a really cool guy and teacher of some really cool students, many of whom are still teaching Latin with their own spins on it.
This article was published in 2017, so it doesn't mention that Foster subsequently died in 2020.
- spudlyo 2y agoHe's quite a character! I found a great video[0] of him speaking for over an hour to a classroom filled with former students. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZLcWl_NCMY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZLcWl_NCMY
- schoen 2y agoWow, it looks like there are also interviews recorded with him in his nursing home after his retirement! https://www.youtube.com/@latintalk9556/videos https://www.youtube.com/@latintalk9556/videos He had a lot more energy earlier in his life (of course), but you can still see a lot of his ideas and passion. In the classroom in earlier decades he was sometimes a lot louder than this. :-)
- unit149 2y ago"You don't study Liszt, you don't study Wagner, and come out hating music." [17:21] Foster's work is based in the classical and English schooling tradition. When a boy was sent to school he would typically be introduced to the paradigms of Latin. Only having mastered it would Greek forms be introduced.
- ks2048 2y agoSome of the suggested videos from that link him speaking just in Latin, which is pretty interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBIZEkTKuq4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBIZEkTKuq4 [LatinTalk: 045 Duo suadeo, duo propono]