This article describes the Sue Rose Summer Institute for Teachers at the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, which, for 30 years, has treated teachers as intellectuals. To that end, the nonprofit educational organization offers teachers from all grade levels and all disciplines an experience that either reacquaints them with or introduces…

Stresses the importance of exposing all students (including second language and underprivileged students) to classic texts. They must be taught how stories work and how to read them. This includes making connections beyond the story, encouraging student-run discussions and projects, scaffolding for dictation and syntax, teaching about reading…

Describes how an English teacher in a Queens, New York, ghetto school introduced her grade nine students to Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations." Focuses on students' responses, which eventually became enthusiastic, and discusses the use of classics within the curriculum. (KH)