ORATION OF MARK ANTHONY

From "Julius Caesar" William Shakespeare

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

The evil that men do lives after them;

The good is oft interred with their bones.

So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus

Hath told you Caesar was ambitious.

If it were so, it was a grievous fault,

And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.

Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest 

(For Brutus is an honourable man;

So are they all, all honourable men), 

Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.

He was my friend, faithful and just to me;

But Brutus says he was ambitious,

And Brutus is an honourable man.

He hath brought many captives home to Rome,

Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill.

Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept;

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;

And Brutus is an honourable man.

You all did see it in the Lupercal

I thrice presented him a kingly crown,

Which he did thrice refuse.
was this ambition?

Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;

And, sure he is an honourable man.

I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,

But here I am to speak what I do know.

You all did love him once, not without cause

What cause withholds you, then to mourn for him?

O judgement, thou art fled to brutish beasts,

And men have lost their reason! Bear with me.

My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,

And I must pause till it come back to me.

Notable Names in Education

-Socrates- "Know thy self"

-Plato- wrote the "Republic"

-Aristotle- Father of Modern Sciences

-Cicero- Wrote the "Oratore"

-Quintillian- Wrote "Institution Oratoria" he was a famous grammaticus

-Anselm- father of scholasticism

-Abelard- spearheaded Conceptualism

-St. Thomas Aquinas- wrote"Summa Theologiae"

-Erasmus- suggested that education be in accordance with the needs of society, he was a humanist who advocated the importance of studying the character of the child.

-Ascham- wrote the "Schoolmaster" condemning brutal punishment in English schools during his time.

-John Amos Comenius-father of modern education, he wrote the first picture book "Orbis Sensualium Pictus"

-Francis  Bacon- wrote the "The New Atlantis"

-Mulcaster- said that "Education should be in accordance with nature"

-John Locke- "tabula rasa" (blank sheet)

-John Jacques Rosseau- wrote "Emile" (Education should be in accordance of the nature of the child)

-Pestallozzi- defined education as natural, symmetrical and harmonious development of the faculties of the child.

-Herbart- conceived education as aimed towards the development of morality and virtue. He is famous for the Herbatian Method in psychology.

-Froebel- father of kindergarten

-John Dewey- "Education is not a preparation of life, it is life"

-St. John Baptiste de la Salle- patron saint of teachers

-Maria Montessori- advocated the child-centered education and prepared environment

The Problem of Pronunciation

By: Anonymous

(Read it orally)

When the English tongue we speak,
Why is break not rhymed with freak?
Will you tell me why it's true
we say sew, but likewise few,
And the maker of the verse
Cannot cap his horse with worse?
Board sounds not the same as heard;
Cord is different from word;
Cow is cow, but low is low;
Shoe is never rhymed with foe.
Think of hose, and dose and lose,
And of goose,and yet of choose.
Think of comb and tomb and bomb,
Doll and roll, and home and some,
And since pay is rhymed with say
Why not paid with said, I pray?
We have blood and food and good;
Mould is not pronounced like could.
Therefore done, but gone and lone?
Is there any reason known?
and, in short, in seems to me
Sounds and letters disagree.