Roy Hunter - The Biography Chapter 5

What kind of person reads Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War, Vergil's Aenid, Cicero's Catilinarian Orations, De Amicitia, De Senectute, Livy's History of Rome, and Tacitus' Germania and Agricola all in Latin? Who enjoys reading Xenophen's Anabasis and Homer's Iliad in Greek? Who takes up reading novels, drama, and poetry in German as well as reading French literature? What kind of person recites Shakespeare, Milton, Tennyson, and Elizabethan Orations, and is capable at debate, and is an articulate speaker and writer? This must be a classical person. Well, what if he also studies Analytical Geometry, Trigonometry, Calculus, Physics, Chemistry, and Geology? Hmm, a scientific person too? Roy was both a classical and scientific man, and the above describes his undergraduate curriculum. This is what National Normal University (NNU) produced in its students and Roy accomplished his undergraduate degree, B.A., in two years! This chapter explores what a "normal" school is and the unique philosophy of education at NNU and why Roy chose this university over the others he attended. Roy was 30 years of age when he graduated. He has nine more years ahead of him before he finally achieves the doctorate. We will continue to follow his academic journey. Which graduate school would he choose next? What would he choose for his degree?