Comments on: Where have all the leaders gone? http://www.topofthemountains.net/2007/04/13/where-have-all-the-leaders-gone/ "Hitch your wagon to a star." —Ralph Waldo Emerson Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:18:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Connor http://www.topofthemountains.net/2007/04/13/where-have-all-the-leaders-gone/#comment-33451 Connor Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:50:36 +0000 http://www.topofthemountains.net/2007/04/13/where-have-all-the-leaders-gone/#comment-33451 Anna, Actually, it's Monday for most states. There are a select few states that are serviced by the Mass. IRS office which will observe a state holiday on Monday, and so they have been pushed back to Tuesday. More info at http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=164052,00.html Anna,

Actually, it’s Monday for most states. There are a select few states that are serviced by the Mass. IRS office which will observe a state holiday on Monday, and so they have been pushed back to Tuesday.

More info at http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=164052,00.html

]]> By: Anna http://www.topofthemountains.net/2007/04/13/where-have-all-the-leaders-gone/#comment-33442 Anna Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:36:58 +0000 http://www.topofthemountains.net/2007/04/13/where-have-all-the-leaders-gone/#comment-33442 Next Tuesday is tax day, actually. They extend the deadline when it falls on a Sunday. And the rest of the post is very good, too. :) Next Tuesday is tax day, actually. They extend the deadline when it falls on a Sunday.
And the rest of the post is very good, too. :)

]]> By: Donna http://www.topofthemountains.net/2007/04/13/where-have-all-the-leaders-gone/#comment-33434 Donna Fri, 13 Apr 2007 22:29:13 +0000 http://www.topofthemountains.net/2007/04/13/where-have-all-the-leaders-gone/#comment-33434 Ok. I am not studying while I type this, but had to share. "This is what education is. It is the education that prepares us to be free men. You have to have an education if you are going to be happy; for happiness consists of making the most of yourself. You have to have this education if you are going to be a member of the community; for membership in the community implies the ability to communicate with others. You have to have this education if you are going to be an effective citizen of a democracy; for citizenship requires that you understand the world in which you live and that you do not leave your duties to be performed by others, living vicariously and vacuously on their virtue and intelligence. A free society is a society of free men. To be free you have to be educated for freedom. This means that you have to think; for a free man is one who thinks for himself. It means, for example,that you have to think about the aims of life and of organized society." Robert Hutchins (was President of the University of Chicago) That was written as a forward to a book written in 1959, when I was four. This book was "An Introduction to the Great Books and to Liberal Education." Those words are as true today as when written. We are in the state that we are in, as a nation, because we, as a people have been lulled away into carnal (temporal) security and have learned to live our duties "vicariously and vacuously" on the "virtue and intelligence" of others. We sold out leadership for management and control. We as a society have been distracted by Babylon and society wants her spoils. Lemmings. Tuned in to self and out to what is important. I hope we can wake up. Of course, when Hutchins wrote those words he was calling to my parents generation. He was trying to bring a Renaissance in education, to teach children how to think, not just what to think. The what to think group won. Someone flushed and now we have ineffectual citizens, rearranging chairs on the deck of the Titanic. Thanks Ben. I will try and study now. I am half way through Mere Christianity, and a few others. Lets see what can be done. I have been watching your run to the finish of the semester. Refreshing to know I am not the only one swamped. Ok. I am not studying while I type this, but had to share.
“This is what education is. It is the education that prepares us to be free men. You have to have an education if you are going to be happy; for happiness consists of making the most of yourself. You have to have this education if you are going to be a member of the community; for membership in the community implies the ability to communicate with others. You have to have this education if you are going to be an effective citizen of a democracy; for citizenship requires that you understand the world in which you live and that you do not leave your duties to be performed by others, living vicariously and vacuously on their virtue and intelligence. A free society is a society of free men. To be free you have to be educated for freedom. This means that you have to think; for a free man is one who thinks for himself. It means, for example,that you have to think about the aims of life and of organized society.”
Robert Hutchins (was President of the University of Chicago)

That was written as a forward to a book written in 1959, when I was four. This book was “An Introduction to the Great Books and to Liberal Education.” Those words are as true today as when written. We are in the state that we are in, as a nation, because we, as a people have been lulled away into carnal (temporal) security and have learned to live our duties “vicariously and vacuously” on the “virtue and intelligence” of others. We sold out leadership for management and control. We as a society have been distracted by Babylon and society wants her spoils. Lemmings. Tuned in to self and out to what is important. I hope we can wake up.

Of course, when Hutchins wrote those words he was calling to my parents generation. He was trying to bring a Renaissance in education, to teach children how to think, not just what to think. The what to think group won. Someone flushed and now we have ineffectual citizens, rearranging chairs on the deck of the Titanic.

Thanks Ben. I will try and study now. I am half way through Mere Christianity, and a few others. Lets see what can be done. I have been watching your run to the finish of the semester. Refreshing to know I am not the only one swamped.

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