FOR ADMINISTRATORS, PRINCIPALS, AND DEPARTMENT HEADS:

DGL consults with principals, heads of language departments, and Latin and language arts instructors to improve the level of challenge afforded students. Private advising is available to individuals lost in the maze of humane study, or just bewildered by the elite college admission process. Classroom visitations are available for purposes of observation and evaluation. Lastly, DGL provides visiting instruction: a three to five class-period course provides an introduction to the history, geography, material culture, myths, ideals, and moral concepts of archaic Greece in the form of an introduction to the Greek of Homer and Herodotus. (A movement into the domain of mathematics, through the Elements of Euclid and Plato's Meno allows DLG students to geometry; an excursion into Aristotle's physical researches directs their minds to the wonders of human anatomy or the problems of accounting for the movements and nature of the matter—Few realize that Aristotle, with his conception of Form (εἶδος), anticipated the contemporary notion of DNA.) Eventually staffed by a wide-ranging team of experts in specialized fields—including computer science, and the mathematics of everyday life, and European literature and world literature, DGL aims to develop and deploy an intellectual SWAT team poised for dispatch behalf of both the normal and the especially gifted child. Here DGL fulfills its Aristotelian motto: "It is the best flute players who deserve the best flutes."
In administrative schemes, DGL curriculum can serve either as an introduction to or as a supplement of any existing college-preparatory course in Latin, English, or language arts. For just as a deep enjoyment of Virgil's Aeneid presupposes familiarity with the themes and poetics of Homer; and just as a grasp of the mentality of Caesar's Gallic Wars presupposes familiarity with the valor of Herodotus' Greeks at Marathon and Thermopylae, so too for earning a top score--the coveted "5"--on the AP Latin exam, there is no more ideal preparation than the DGL course. Likewise to appreciate and imitate the poetry of Milton, Eliot, or Hughes as well as the prose of Jefferson, Arnold, King or Orwell no more perfect preparation can be imagined. The DGL course is "language arts" instruction of the highest order.
For high school students of the hardiest grit, DGL provides lessons both digitally and in person conducive to the intermediate collegiate study of Homeric, Ionic, and Attic Greek. Champions of this final struggle will rise from the mat poised for race-blind admission to our nation's most highly selective colleges and universities, poised to follow pathways forged by Cicero, Erasmus, Madison and Dubois, forged to become, as Plato would have it-- philosopher kings.1

The ethos of 'responsibility to the progress of the team' will dominate the DGL classroom; as in a varsity sport, participation will be a privilege, rather than a right; effort expended will mark willing service to the student's own sense of excellence, rather than a chore performed beneath the lash.
Whatever the level of completion, participation in DGL will outfit students for the remainder of their academic lives. Dispensed from Muse's cup—Ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, Μοῦσα2—that student's grounding in the humane arts will be truly extraordinary.
For a better understanding of how DGL curriculum might come to your school, classroom, or students see DGL proposal to the Detroit Public Schools and Prelude to Latin: DGL curricula overview.

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