Well today I stumbled upon Ed Nagelhout’s blog in the Hub, in which he wrote on Philosophies. Moreover I noted that he was involved in teaching grammar,- English grammar. I was interested because it is rare that one is interested in both philosophy and grammar, as I can attest, since I am in the same boat.  My research area was/is ancient philosophy and my teaching area was Latin and Greek grammar.  There are obvious differences, but more concomitancies.or commonalities. I would perhaps connect the two differently but I have missed too much of the talk on ‘connected learning’ and ‘connectiveness’ to hazard a guess there.  In the grammar area I did note that we go about the basics quite differently, though I was very intrigued that his course used inflected forms of fast (=speedy) and fast (=to abstain from eating) as examples to demonstrate inflectional morphemes wherein the ‘base’ (we’d call it ‘stem’) have the same meaning, a fact that would not be intuitive to an English speaker, but in fact ‘fast’ in both uses (as adjective or verb) comes from the same Indo-European root.  Now this is a conversation or turn of thought that does not occur often in this kind of MOOC, but I found it worthwhile, as also Ed’s struggle about consistency in pedagogy and educational principles. Bravo, I say