Don't we all appreciate excellent teachers who can make us sit on the edge of our seats with eagerness to learn? Don't we love those "ah-ha" moments when new ideas click in? My mother described one such instructor. Professor J. Rufus Fears is the latest hot prof among life-long learners in Oklahoma. People are underwriting private lectures and classes just to learn in a live face-to-face situation. Anyone can order his lectures through The Teaching Company. I've enjoyed their courses in the past.
Fears is the David Ross Boyd Professor of Classics at the University of Oklahoma, where he holds the G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard and is a 21-time award winner for outstanding teaching. He has been named "Professor of the Year" at Oklahoma three times.
Mother was fascinated with his personal lectures on Greek and Roman History. She set out the tapes of his lectures on Books That Have Made History. She listenes to his lectures while she gardens or walks and the courses she has ordered through The Teaching Company include Famous Greeks, Famous Romans, A History of Freedom and Churchill.
I'll start with the History of Freedom series. It might be very relevant to our times.
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