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...lies in its labs, where religious scientists experiment with pressing moral paradoxes, like how to turn gays into straights. Scholarship proceeds in a most efficient manner: while Widener wastes trillions each year on books, Andover library gets by on a few donations from the Gideons, a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, and twenty DVDs of Battlefield Earth...
This isn't to say that she provided me with no religious instruction. In her mind, a working knowledge of the world's great religions was a necessary part of any well-rounded education. In our household the Bible, the Koran, and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology. On Easter or Christmas Day my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites. But I was made to understand that such...
...equivalent of the Core still consists of a general education in “Great Books,” Russell specialized in teaching the non-Western components of the curriculum. He has imported this emphasis into his Harvard seminars; alongside Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, and the Bible are added the Bhagavad Gita, the Lotus Sutra, and a number of sources on Zoroastrianism.Sitting in on the course and talking with a number of enrollees, one quickly gets the impression that this is an offering which consumes a large amount of Russell’s and his students’ time.It helps that...
...questions that have perplexed and confounded humankind throughout the ages” in an intensive three-quarter sequence. Both programs include works from great writers and thinkers such as Shakespeare and Descartes, while Stanford’s program has a more international bend, including texts such as the Koran, Bhagavad Gita and the Ramayana. The programs also put a premium on teaching quality by incorporating small weekly seminars with faculty. Harvard should work to develop a similar program...
...sugarcane, with liners bound for Cape Town and Colombo. You might think, to read some of imperialism's apologists, that such a familiarity with exotic climes would have bred a reverence for foreign cultures, as if every child of empire wanted to do something noble, like translate the Bhagavad Gita or teach for a year in Sierra Leone. Sadly, not so. In Britain, the imperialist adventure produced a belief that Britons were better than anyone with dark skin. In my hometown, imperialism bred a pervasive racism. When John Barnes, a great black soccer player, first played for Liverpool, the fans...