On Dec 5, 2007, at 11:09 AM, wokshevs@xxxxxx wrote:
After three full days of student oral exams and presentations re. the next batch of theses, one phrase sticks in my mind: the title of a proposal to create a pamphlet that would be available to young people who have been diagnosed with cancer and who are surrounded by advice and fears and procedures and the whole medical morass, "There is no Wisdom in it." Why did it resonate? Partly because I had just sat through a thesis defense in which photos of people whose breast cancer was in remission were described in heroic terms--"these are the folk to admire," was the implicit message. Where to find true knowledge or wisdom? Not, I think, in the lottery of suffering.Cheers, Walter Student to Sir Karl: But sir, where can I find true knowledge?? SK: Tried the library?
David Ritchie probably not helping in Portland, Oregon ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html