Margie Johnson is an instructional technology specialist at Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools in Tennessee. Students use handhelds to compose a story with a moral. Writing is a critical area ...

NEW YORK — From the goose that laid the golden egg to the race between the tortoise and the hare, Aesop's fables are known for teaching moral lessons rather than literally being true. But a new study ...

WASHINGTON — Aesop was a writer, possibly of African origin, who lived more than 2,500 years ago in Ancient Greece. But although he's long gone, his famous fables — or those credited to him, if not ...

It doesn't take much to spin Aesop's fables into business lessons. The Hare and the Turtle and any number of other tales, though written around the 5th century BCE, can be easily made relevant to ...

Fable 1: Some famished dogs saw a number of cowhides steeping in a river. [Editor’s note: A traditional method of softening hides for leather making.] Not being able to reach them, they agreed to ...

Back before electronics and video games, a major pastime for children was reading, and most can remember a favorite children's story - one that had a profound influence on shaping values and attitudes ...

Aesop's The Lion and the Boar. Source: J van Kessel/Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain A fable is a short tale that features animals or other non-human entities (the sun, the wind, trees…), and ...

The aim of theMHRA Tudor & Stuart Translationsis to create a representative library of works translated into English during the early modern period for the use of scholars, students and the wider ...

Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as enthralled with the wonders of the universe as she is. When she's not daydreaming about flying through space, she's daydreaming ...

As a small beggar-child trying to scrounge together enough gold coins to buy a magical trinket, you'll take any odd job. So when a felon offers to save you some trouble and offers you some money, it's ...

It never hurts to repeat the truth, as a newspaper editor of my acquaintance once observed. It especially doesn’t hurt — to put a finer point on it — to repeat a collection of truths that have been ...