On Reading Euclid

Why the father of Geometry still ought to have a role in education today.

In the first few weeks of the pandemic, I was tasked with tutoring my younger brother in geometry to help punch up his grades. This was no trifle for someone who had spent so much time in the humanities, but his personality did not mesh well with the teacher’s and remote learning only put further strain on his education. I took a week to catch up to whe…