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...everything keeps intertwining" is the month's leave of absence he took from admissions last fall. For the first few weeks he was in Australia announcing the Junior World Soccer Cup for 19-years-olds and under. Returning to the States, he had just enough time to catch his breath before leaving for Germany as one of nine educators invited by the German government to conduct a seminar on educational and admission problems. And while he was there, he adds almost gleefully, he found time to take a trip to Frankfurt to visit a friend, a soccer player...
...breath of hope comes from Mortimer Adler [Sept. 6]! What currently passes for an educational system in the United States more nearly resembles a glorified baby-sitting service...
...Aristotelian view of education as a process has become the conventionally worthy answer today whenever college presidents and other academic leaders are asked what an education should be. An educated man, says Harvard President Bok, taking a deep breath, must have a "curiosity in exploring the unfamiliar and unexpected, an open-minded-ness in entertaining opposing points of view, tolerance for the ambiguity that surrounds so many important issues, and a willingness to make the best decisions he can in the face of uncertainty and doubt...
...educated person," says University of Chicago President Hanna Holborn Gray, taking an equally deep breath, "is a person who has a respect for rationality, and who understands some of the limits of rationality as well, who has acquired independent critical intelligence, and a sense not only for the complexity of the world and different points of view but of the standards he or she would thoughtfully want to be pursuing in making judgments...
...only the most unavoidable things." He concludes his meditation by imagining an ideal state of loneliness: "No sun, no culture, me, naked on a high rock, no storms, not even a wave, no water, no wind, no streets, no benches, no money, no time, and no breath. Then, at least, I should not be afraid any more...