Start your week off right with some headlines and other items (not all tongue-in-cheek) from around the internet:
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Rabbis Say No to Shabbat Elevators
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October 12th, 2009 | 3:51 pm
Re: “The Iliad: Sounds Like Interesting Read, Is It New or Something?” I’m not the least bit surprised to that a candidate for a Masters in Education had not even heard of the Iliad. Over on the Just Jen (1 ‘n’) blog, there was a link to this article: http://chronicle.com/article/Confessions-of-a-Middlebrow/48644, in which is discussed how the Great Books got promoted and then dissed in academia.
In a similar vein, I once suggested to a very intelligent lawyer acquaintance of mine that he might want to read the New Testament – he’s a secular Jewish atheist (now, there’s an odd looking collection of words!) – because, well, he might want to have a clue about what Shakespeare, Dickens, MLK or, heck, even JFK were talking about. He never did it, as far as I know. Too bad.
October 13th, 2009 | 7:19 am
Doesn’t really surprise me that much, either, Joseph, to tell you the truth, though it does depress me. A couple of years ago my oldest daughter, while doing research for a paper (in a class in which she read The Iliad, incidentally) remarked with awe on the fact that the Greeks had known how to read and write, and then forgotten how to, for centuries. I don’t find that hard to get my head around at all . . .
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