Posts Tagged ‘ education ’
A historically black village’s destruction made way for Central Park’s creation.
Source: The lost neighborhood under New York’s Central Park – Vox
For now, he said, “I’m thinking about resistance. What does it mean, resistance? What kind of resistance do we need today? Technology is now being used, much of it, for negative purposes. So to resist all what is happening negatively in humanity or technology is to develop the — O.K., this banal word, spiritual aspect.”
He remained sanguine, despite some reservations about current world leaders. Totalitarianism, in his experience, did not endure, whereas art, nature and the teachings of the saints all were as powerful as ever — they were what composed his life. He did not use the word optimistic, but he felt that solutions were more durable than problems.
“To go back and introduce into all the schools art, to cut down on sports but bring arts, philosophy back into all educational systems,” he said. “And that’s what’s being cut everywhere. And I think that’s one of the sad and tragic parts of where we are. Education is the resistance to everything that is bad today.” – Jonas Mekas Think Like An Old Person – The New York Times
Hillary Rodham Clinton and her mother, Dorothy Rodham, at a hotel in New York in 1992.
Ron Frehm/Associated Press
Story of Hillary Clinton’s Mother Forms Emotional Core of Campaign – NYTimes.com.
The Problem With People, Not Pit Bulls – American Pitbull Foundation.
for the beloved Rosie ~
Another beloved friend, Claude, approves of the American Pit Bull Foundation and its website – dF