[Gllug] zaurus and wireless networking

[Jonathan Harker]

On Monday 18 Nov 2002 4:04 pm, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> -- 
> 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

fortune -s will give you a short fortune for your sig!  ;-)
Luv Jon

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Jonathan Harker
www.jonathanharker.co.uk

Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.
		-- Friedrich von Schiller, "The Maid of Orleans", III, 6


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