I teach "Homer to Virginia Woolf" to eighteen-year-olds.
Homer taught at Mannes for many years, imparting his wisdom to generations of students.
He could quote from Homer, taught himself Chinese and was in the habit of frequenting Soho's Chinatown, where he could display his knowledge - although, typically, he chose Chinese above Japanese because the textbooks were cheaper.
It has elements of Greek heroes, quixotic sidekicks and knights of the Round Table, where cowboys use poetry to explain their world to outsiders and, like Homer, teach one another about the proper course of conduct.
While Marge teaches Lisa sewing, Homer goes to the mall to buy some magazines for her.
Homer is teaching us a great deal of wisdom that we lack in the diet field: that the human state involves vulnerability".
According to the handful of vague plot details released so far, the crossover episode will show Bart teaching Stewie to skateboard, Homer and Peter getting drunk together and everyone who ever loved The Simpsons walking to their bathroom mirror during the commercials to stare hard at their own reflection while repeating positive affirmations about how it will all be over soon.
One of the first such episodes to depict this is "Secrets of a Successful Marriage" (season five, 1994), where Homer starts teaching an adult education class on how to build a successful marriage.
But with some help from his tutoring and the aid of Greek books that he managed to buy (a Plato) or borrow from friends (a Homer), Erasmus taught himself Greek by tediously translating Greek books into Latin.
