Ted Turner studied classics at Brown and this aggravated his father...
If you are going to stay on at Brown, and be a professor of Classics, the courses you have adopted will suit you for a lifetime association with Gale Noyes. Perhaps he will even teach you to make jelly. In my opinion, it won't do much to help you learn to get along with people in this world. I think you are rapidly becoming a jackass, and the sooner you get out of that filthy atmosphere, the better it will suit me.
What a strange view of education, to help you get along with people. The word means "to lead out.." (presumably the darkness...) to enlighten. You learn to get along with people, or not, by age 5 or 6. The point of an education is to be able to have a wider reference to draw on when navigating these treacherous waters.
I am reading Plutarch right now, The Makers of Rome, and the parallels to events today are remarkable. I am convinced one reason the classics are now denigrated is that it in fact tips people off as to various power-scams, and the results. Ignorance is victory for the powers that be.
Another thing I note is how these people would kill themselves rather than suffer ignominy. Christianity takes bad times as having meaning, and even the idea of "time in the desert" as a purifying thing, a stark contrast in those times.
Ted was going to need that perspective he got from the classics later, when his father shot himself to death. His old man could have used a classical education.
If you are going to stay on at Brown, and be a professor of Classics, the courses you have adopted will suit you for a lifetime association with Gale Noyes. Perhaps he will even teach you to make jelly. In my opinion, it won't do much to help you learn to get along with people in this world. I think you are rapidly becoming a jackass, and the sooner you get out of that filthy atmosphere, the better it will suit me.
What a strange view of education, to help you get along with people. The word means "to lead out.." (presumably the darkness...) to enlighten. You learn to get along with people, or not, by age 5 or 6. The point of an education is to be able to have a wider reference to draw on when navigating these treacherous waters.
I am reading Plutarch right now, The Makers of Rome, and the parallels to events today are remarkable. I am convinced one reason the classics are now denigrated is that it in fact tips people off as to various power-scams, and the results. Ignorance is victory for the powers that be.
Another thing I note is how these people would kill themselves rather than suffer ignominy. Christianity takes bad times as having meaning, and even the idea of "time in the desert" as a purifying thing, a stark contrast in those times.
Ted was going to need that perspective he got from the classics later, when his father shot himself to death. His old man could have used a classical education.
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