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Day 75 - Harvard Classics - 90 Day ChallengeOct 27: BUDDHIST WRITINGSFruit of Seven Years' Silence Siddhartha Gautama, who became the god Buddha, renounced the world and spent seven years in meditation. Then one day, while sitting under a fig tree, he became inspired with exalted and sublime conceptions of life and death. The rest of his life was spent in teaching and converting mankind. Read from BUDDHIST WRITINGS ............... Vol. 45, pp. 661-674 Oct 28: SOME THOUGHTS CONCERNING EDUCATIONHow Dice Taught Spelling Locke taught children by means of games. He tells of a game whereby children were taught to spell with dice on which the letters of the alphabet were pasted. This was more than 200 years before modern kindergarten methods. Today's children would respond to such wise direction as Locke recommends. Read: SOME THOUGHTS CONCERNING EDUCATION ......... Vol. 37, pp. 128-136 Oct 29: KEATS' POEMSGenius Rises from a StableThough the son of a stable man, John Keats wrote the most exquisite and sublime poetry in our language. He was the friend of Shelley, Lord Byron, and the other literary leaders of the time— his genius recognized by all. Read: KEATS' POEMS ................................ Vol. 41, pp. 874-882 Oct 30: Lyell's THE PROGRESS OF GEOLOGYGeology's Greatest Benefactor Lyell has been called the founder of modern geology. Darwin, the master scientist, called h im "Geology's Greatest Benefactor." Lyell's research revolutionized ideas on that subject. Read from Lyell's THE PROGRESS OF GEOLOGY ........... Vol. 38, pp. 385-391 |