The Saunterer

What Albert Einstein thinks of the president of North Korea

    Yes, there is time travel. Albert Einstein practiced it when he wrote his views of a perpetually detestable class of males. Current members include Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Il.

    That a man can take pleasure in marching in fours to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; unprotected spinal marrow was all he needed. . . . Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! . . . My opinion of the human race is high enough that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the peoples not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press.

     (Quoted in The Life of the Creative Spirit, by H. Charles Romesburg, on p. 226.)

Herbert Read on the failure of modern education

    Herbert Read asks us to consider Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s first principle of education:

    Contrast the daily actions of an 18th century chairmaker and those of a 20th century machinist. The latter would appear as a confined, repetitive clot, the former as a free and fantastic arabesque. But the most significant contrast could not be visualized, for it is mental: the contrast between a mind suspended aimlessly above an autonomous movement, and a mind consciously bent on the shaping of a material substance according to the persistent evidence of the senses.
   Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s first principle of education: Keep the child dependent on things only. Rousseau believed that the child learns by trial and error better than by formula.

(Quoted from Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism, by Herbert Read. Horizon Press. 1964.)

 

How philanthropy accomplishes immortality

    People don't possess their money. What they do have is say over how it is spent. And of the ways of spending it, philanthropy can be used to extend life beyond death. Click on https://waterlandlife.org/wp-content/uploads/HCNews/HC-Newsletter-S19.pdf to see the proof.