Classical vs. Hebraic Mindset
Um, OK. This post isn’t actually about the classical vs. Hebraic mindset. I’ll blog it about some other time.
I teach a lot of kids, and after I quit my main job last year, most of them now are home school kids from my church. There is one class, though, that is special … elite. They are called “The 6“. They study harder and do better than anyone else. One of them has only been studying English for about one year. One year!! Last year, he didn’t know the alphabet or phonics or anything, and this spring he’ll be ready with the rest of the class to start reading Jordan and Leithart.
Anyway, during the first class I had with The 6 after I got back, I told them I would probably be going away for a while to study Hebrew and Greek. I expected the kids’ reactions to be something like, “Oh, yay, we won’t have to study so much,” or “Hurray for less homework,” or “Aww, I’m gonna miss you.” They are still at the ages when children want to play more than anything else (10 to 13). I expected anything but this: “Congratulations!! Please come back and teach it to us!! We want to study Hebrew!!”
In a different class, a beautiful little home school girl I teach, 6 years old, burst out, “You‘re going? I want to go. I want to study Hebrew.”
I love my kids.
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