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"We are to regard the mind, not as a receptacle into which knowledge may be poured; but as a flame that is to be fed, as an active being that must be strengthened to think and to feel---and to dare, to do, and to suffer." - Mark Hopkins-president of Williams College
One must have curiosity, for one's imagination to flourish.
Today
- "There is a passion in the human heart that is called aspiration. It flares with the noble flame, and by its light, Man has traveled from the caves of darkness to the darkness of outer space. But when this passion called aspiration becomes lust, then aspiration degenerates becomes vulgar ambition, by which sin the angels fell."
- We live for hope.
- To get back up to the shinning world from there
- My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel.
- And following ots [atj. we took no care
- To rest, but climbed: he first, then I-so far
- Through a round aperture, I saw appear
- Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears,
- Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars
- -----Dante Alighieri, Inferno
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Education
- Ed.D.
- M.Edu.
- B.S. Edu.
- That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. William Wordsworth
Courses Spring 2025 (01/13/2025 through 05/09/2025
- Pol Sci 2306.A1,2,3 (22680,22934,22863 Tex. Gov't Pride Prep Students DTH 303 MWF 7:20-8:15
- English 2326.POE (22421) Introd to Literature Dual Credit Students CHS 116 T&Th 7:45-8:33
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- "A man's reach should exceed his grasp." Words from the poet, Robert Browning, suggest that to achieve anything worthwhile, a person should attempt even those things that may turn out to be impossible. Do not let anybody limit your desires and ambitions.
- “Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but only waits to be provoked.” Katherine Anne Porter
Misc
- Fur Gott, Furst, und Vaterland
- Selected European Leaders 2024
- Doggies
- Belgium
- Denmark
- Germany
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Norway
- Sweden
- The Netherlands
- Italo Disco music 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10
- "The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treason, stratagems, and spoils; the motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music." William Shakespeare "The Merchant of Venice."
Research Interest
Royalty Killed in Action in World War I (The Great War)
Modern European Monarchs/ Antiquity/ The Middle Ages/ U.S. Supreme Court cases
The 1950s tv series
"Progress/enlightenment goes on. One experiment fails, but even out of failure valuable lessons are learned. A way will be found, somehow. It always is." "For where your treasure is, there your heart will also be. Matthew 6:21
Courses Taught
- Pol Sci 2305
- Pol Sci 2306
- History 1301
- History 1302
- English 1301
- English 1302
- English 341
- English 2326
- History 0497
- Sociology 1306
- In all the Universe, can there be creatures stranger than the species called Man? He creates and destroys; he fumbles and makes mistakes. But the thing which distinguishes him is the ability to learn from his mistakes.
Scholars
What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be not forever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
Grief not, rather find,
Strength in what remains behind,
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be,
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of Human suffering,
In the faith that looks through death
In years that bring philosophic mind.
William Wordsworth
Your Passion
Your passion whatever it is, like rowing for instance. Rowing is the finest art there is. It is a symphony of motion and when you are rowing well and nearing perfection and then reach perfection; you are touching the devine. The devine touches you of you's. Which is your soul.
