cont'd ...

As for what universities should do?

"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself."
(Chinese proverb).

You can have access to professors from the best universities
in the world but you still need to be willing to do the work,
even when it's hard. If you can't do it alone, remember that
asking for help is part of doing the work.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into
windows.

It's interesting that Foxy quotes Barbara Walters- a mirror perhaps.

What's with those dangly ear rings that Foxy I mean Barbara is wearing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Walters

She went to Sarah Lawrence College of cesspool New York- interesting place- a bit too Liberal perhaps- but otherwise seemingly satisfactory- founded by a descendant of Lawrence Of Ashton Hall. I guess port cities have always had a reputation- but New York is on another level.

http://www.geni.com/people/Sir-Robert-Lawrence/6000000003826226307

But I can't stand "The View".

Continuing Foxy's theme of quotes- I liked the mirrors and windows- 'Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.' Ralph Waldo Emerson. (Not far away from NY in Boston. Sadly a Unitarian and of the Transcendental Movement both of which appears to have led the West down a long slide to self destruction.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson

Generally I prefer Martin Luther.

Seeing as we're sharing quotes:

Ralph Waldo Emerson said many things. I think this
one is appropriate to the discussion of the "Australian
Choice" proposed model by the ARM:

" The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never
returns to its original dimensions."

As for Barbara Walters and being a mirror image of me?
Apart from the age thing (Walters is over 90).
No. I simply liked her quote and thought it appropriate.

Martin Luther?
Again not so much.

"A happy fart never comes from a miserable ass."

One of my favourites comes from Rebecca West:

"Every other inch a gentleman."

That will have to do for now.

Apart from singing this ditty on this special day:

"Come On Aussie, Come On, Come On..."

I lke this quote:

“When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty workday clothes, and put on the robes of court and palace, and in this graver dress I enter the antique courts of the ancients, and am welcomed by them, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, and for which I was born. And there I make bold to speak to them and ask the motives of their actions, and they, in their humanity reply to me, And for the space of four hours I forget the world, remember no vexation, fear poverty no more, tremble no more at death...” Niccolo Machiavell

Dear David F.,

Thank you for the quote.

The name - Machiavellian has such dreadful connotations,
we assume that anything he had to say must be well, cunning,
scheming, and unscrupulous. It was a surprise to read
something different.

Back to the topic.

I like and admire our former Governor-General
Quentin Bryce. She had this to say:

"I suggest a nation -
where people are free to love and marry whom they choose.
And when perhaps, my friends, one day, one young boy or
girl may grow up to be out nation's first head of state."