Postby Technomancer » Sun Aug 03, 2003 9:23 am
Edi be thu Heven Queene- Ensemble Unicorn
From a Naxos CD, "On the Road to Bethlehem" Music that might have been heard by a medievel pilgram. It's great, the music traces the road of the pilgrim, successive songs grow more Eastern as the CD progresses (from England to France and Germany, the Balkans, Turkey, etc)
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry—is not even a "subject"—but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.
Neil Postman
(The End of Education)
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
Isaac Aasimov