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He'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/watc
by spudlyo 2y ago
He'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]