[Gllug] zaurus and wireless networking

Xander D Harkness xander at harkness.co.uk
Mon Nov 18 04:07:03 UTC 2002


Jonathan Harker wrote:

>On Monday 18 Nov 2002 4:04 pm, Xander D Harkness wrote:
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>>-- 
>>If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get
>>the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude.  See in
>>college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural
>>method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall
>>learn what you have no taste or capacity for.  The college, which should
>>be a place of delightful labor, is made odious and unhealthy, and the
>>young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits.
>>I would have the studies elective.  Scholarship is to be created not
>>by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.  The wise
>>instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the
>>attractions the study has for himself.  The marking is a system for schools,
>>not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to
>>put on a professor.
>>                -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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>fortune -s will give you a short fortune for your sig!  ;-)
>Luv Jon
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whoops - got stuck down the bottom of the email and did not see it ;-)

Thanks.

Cheers
Xander



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