Bill,
Good for Bronowski, one of my favorite people, Vera
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Barowy <wbarowy@lesley.edu>
To: XCMA <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Date: Monday, December 25, 2000 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: An Express Seasons Greetings Card - from Nate
>Thank you Nate!
>
>I find myself among a bewildering array of literature this morning, from
Escher to Kripke, and two items, betraying the authors' trajectories in
life, leap out from a tiny book called "Teachers, a tribute":
>
>"To help the child in its own battle, to strengthen it and equip it, nor
for some outside end proposed by the state, or by any other impersonal
authority, but to the ends which the child's own spirit is obscurely
seeking.'
>
>Russell
>
>"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot
irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known,
but to question it."
>
>Bronowski
>
>
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