Saturday, March 21, 2009

[1685 - Johann Sebastian Bach, composer,
born in Eisenach, Thuringia]

[1826 - Rensselaer School, Troy, New York, incorporated (now Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), first US engineering college)]

 
[1869 - Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., showman, producer, born in Chicago, Illinois.]

[1905 - Phyllis McGinley, Pulitzer Prize-
winning poet, born in Ontario, Oregon]

[1910 - Julio Gallo, wine magnate,
born in Oakland, California]

[1930 - James Coco, actor, born in New York City]

    

[1960 - Ayrton Senna da Silva, Formula 1 driver, born in Sao Paolo, Brazil]

Teacher, Leave Them Kids Alone

O Sage, if thou my Teacher be,
Bring me all thy Humility.
Seize not my hand to lead me home.
But show me a Path, that I may find My way,
Alone.

"A guru gives us himself and then his system; a teacher gives us his subject and then ourselves."

Adam Gopnik
Last of the Metrozoids
The New Yorker Magazine
May 10, 2004

William's Whimsical Words:

Pink Floyd had it right.

  We don't need no education
  We don't need no thought control
  No dark sarcasm in the classroom
  Teacher leave them kids alone
  Hey, Teacher, Leave them kids alone
  All in all it's just another brick in the wall
  All in all you're just another brick in the wall 

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