Posted on 07/22/2007 10:24:53 PM PDT by goldstategop
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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http://www.thefire.org/ - Non-Profit Organization in defense of genuine academic freedom.
http://www.hillsdale.edu/ - The conservative “liberal arts” college.
Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame!
The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,
And you are stay’d for. There; my blessing with thee!
And these few precepts in thy memory
See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch’d, unfledged comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
Bear’t that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express’d in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!
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Bookmark for later reading. Thanks for the post!!
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He seems like a well rounded, thoughtful person. This is good advice.
Why, oh why, do so many FReepers post a poem or an excerpt of prose without any reference to the author, the work or the title?
Oh lordy, you must be joking....if not, it’s sad, sad, sad.
Not a joke at all. So many song lyrics, poems and prose without any attribution. It drives me, well, to the edge. :^(
It’s Polonius’ bit from Hamlet — advice to his son — perhaps one of the most famous pieces in the English language.
p.s.
If I remember correctly, there was even an episode of Gilligan’s Island where they set it to music.
Alright, I am probably the most culturally illiterate poster on FR and even I know that's Hamlet. Heck, even the castaways on Gilligan's Island knew that.
Hamlet
It's a good play, but full of quotes.
Also as a parent of a teenage daughter, I find myself emphasizing math and the hard sciences. Engineering, math curriculum’s etc have little in the way of biases.
I encourage other parents to tell their children to limit the “Social problems in society” classes if at all possible. That’s where the wing-nuts tend to teach. A lot of it is opinion oriented, using skewed data to back up their far lefty claims. Unfortunately, most degree programs require these “socilaly liberal causes” in one form or another in most degree programs.
Another good idea I’ve been kicking around for my kids is trade school. Nursing, plumbing, auto techs, electricians, welding etc are respectable jobs, providing decent pay and are always in demand.
From my previous post (preview is my friend!)
socilaly = socially.
Hamlet, Act I Scene III - LORD POLONIUS
That way someone who has not been exposed might choose to look it up and read more.
Just a thought.
P.S. I was in a checkout line the other night and the clerk noticed my Moody Blues T-shirt. He asked if I'd really seen them live. ::: roll eyes ::: Yes. Then went on to how they talk about MB in Rock and Roll class at the local college.
"Rock and Roll class, for like credit?" Yes, he says...
So todays kids might be able to site the poem at the end of "Nights in White Satin", but they may not know Hamlet.
Tell your kids ever to take a college course with the words “and Society” in the title. That is death for a conservative. The only reason I took one was because I needed a cake class to alleviate some of the stress from my engineering cirriculum. I kept my head down and escaped with a C+.
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