tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post3791407857318030043..comments2024-03-27T06:56:10.255+00:00Comments on Broad Oak Magazine: "What is the purpose of work?" by JDUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-30633554292521562972017-07-03T00:53:33.822+01:002017-07-03T00:53:33.822+01:00I retired this week as the Chair of Mathematics in...I retired this week as the Chair of Mathematics in a large mid-Western US university.<br /><br />I made it a goal to try to have the grades awarded in our Department have some actual meaning, which is becoming ever harder, as the powers-that-be want to measure education by percentages passing, and other totally stupid metrics.Paddingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07952088638231881617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-26526769044134258892017-07-02T23:41:40.343+01:002017-07-02T23:41:40.343+01:00Yogananda on the 'true' meaning of the Cas...Yogananda on the 'true' meaning of the Caste system:<br /><br />https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iN6fdZR6rXkC&pg=PA379&lpg=PA379&dq=yogananda+caste+system&source=bl&ots=pfK5XtuQe6&sig=aiJG9XPniI4rLcXhs0NBHzcW2vY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjB_b-X1OvUAhVrIMAKHb5SAo4Q6AEISzAG#v=onepage&q=yogananda%20caste%20system&f=false<br /><br />What are we here to do...CherryPiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11788084724907992076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-43742821950897996412017-07-02T19:38:37.709+01:002017-07-02T19:38:37.709+01:00"A people calling itself great and living in ..."A people calling itself great and living in a city also called great go to their houses a mere disorderly mass of humans cheaply equipped. Everything is cheap. When the people get home to their houses they sit on cheap chairs before cheap tables and eat cheap food. They have given their lives for cheap things. The poorest peasant of one of the old countries is surrounded by more beauty. His very equipment for living has more solidity."<br /><br />Sherwood Anderson - Marching Men (1917)A K Haarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.com