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Employers understandably value real-world experience and skills, and students are incorporating that message into their college planning. Simply witness the recent backlash against joining Phi Beta Kappa by many graduates who have either never heard of it or do not care enough about its guiding liberal arts principle, "Philosophia Biou Kybernetes," or "Love of wisdom is the guide of life." A love of wisdom has sadly metamorphosed into a love of financial security...
Joong Fang Editor, Philosophia Mathematica Norfolk...
...century behind the times, as it certainly is when it refers (Sept. 21 issue) to the Phi Beta Kappa as a secret. The society stopped klu-klukking a long time ago. Phi Beta Kappa (not P. B. K., for the character P is the Greek R) is transliterated Philosophia Biou Kubernetes, meaning "Philosophy is the guide of Me , this is not the Society's name, which I represented by the S. P. (Societas Philosophorum) on the keys...
...Later Syriac, and through that the English of Keith-Falconer; the Greek of Symeon Seth and from that the Latin of Possinus; the Hebrew of Rabbi Joel and from that the "Directorium," by John of Capua, from which comes the "Buch der byspel der alten Wysen," and the "Moral Philosophia" by Doni, which was translated into English by Sir Thomas North in 1570. from the Arabic we also get the stories through the Persian and French of David Sahid, 1644, down to La Fontaine...
...Mary of Virginia. The society quickly extended to Harvard, and a chapter was founded there in 1781. The object of the society was the promotion of literature and friendly intercourse among scholars, but only those students who obtained a high rank were admitted. The motto of the society is "Philosophia, Biou Kubernetes," or "Philosophy, the Guide of Life." The Phi Beta Kappa now has chapters in very nearly every college of note in the country...
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