By: Ellen Roseman of the Toronto Star
How I honoured my parents’ love of education - thestar.com
"In my case, I was a liberal arts student who stumbled into a philosophy class and was entranced. After getting my BA, I left my home in Montreal to take a master’s degree in philosophy at the University of Toronto...
"Today, philosophy classes fill up quickly at the university’s three campuses. Students want to learn how to think logically and analyze clearly – skills that will help them in any career they choose.
“We’re more popular than ever,” Ainslie tells me. “Philosophy is the ideal preparation for almost anything in the contemporary world. You learn how to make a persuasive case for your position.”......
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Friday, October 29, 2010
Divorced parents ordered to read books and write summaries by Justice David Price , #fb
Ontario Superior Court Justice David Price told the separated couple, who are bickering over money and access to children, that the books “may improve their ability to communicate and resolve some of the issues that are troubling them.”
The couple has until Nov. 30 to read the books and provide “proof they have done so, together with the one-page summary, for each book, of one insight that they have gained from it and one strategy, if any, they are prepared to adopt based on it.”
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/882776--judge-orders-warring-parents-to-read-report-on-three-books
The couple has until Nov. 30 to read the books and provide “proof they have done so, together with the one-page summary, for each book, of one insight that they have gained from it and one strategy, if any, they are prepared to adopt based on it.”
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/882776--judge-orders-warring-parents-to-read-report-on-three-books
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Daily Notes: Learn about the issues, be part of the solution .....
Daily Notes: Learn about the issues, be part of the solution .....: "Toronto Community Foundation http://www.tcf.ca/index.html"
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
A person's true nature, #fb
If in the darkness of ignorance,you dont recognize a person's true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader. -Rumi, Mathnawi [IV, 1640
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
The Jane bus became a global village
Fiorito: The Jane bus and the vale of tears
"It was as if the Jane bus had become a mobile village, and each of us had a stake in the raising of that boy; our future depended on him, and if we let him learn to be a problem now, he’d be a problem for the rest of our lives......
Joe Fiorito
Joe is a great observer of the minutiae of the city's underbelly. He is a masterful storyteller.
"It was as if the Jane bus had become a mobile village, and each of us had a stake in the raising of that boy; our future depended on him, and if we let him learn to be a problem now, he’d be a problem for the rest of our lives......
Joe Fiorito
Joe is a great observer of the minutiae of the city's underbelly. He is a masterful storyteller.
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